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LOOKING through next year’s seed catalogues can be frustrating, as well as inspiring. There’s a long, dull winter to get through before most of the varieties listed can be sown or planted.
So I’ll start with a vegetable suitable for sowing at any time. Suttons Seeds (www.suttons.co.uk; tel 0844 326-2200) offers a sweetcorn called Bodacious which is grown for its seed shoots.
Sown indoors in complete darkness, the resulting bright yellow shoots are said to taste something like beansprouts as well as corn on the cob, but with an extra sweet-and-sour flavour.
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