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Charlotte: discover its flavour and how to grow it

Even, elongated tubers with firm, yellow flesh. Choose Charlotte for fresh potatoes and a stored supply. The evenly sized, medium tubers are easy to portion without cutting into a very large potato for a small dish.

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Chelsea: flavour and growing

Large, intensely flavoured fruit.

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Cherie: discover its flavour and how to grow it

Early potato with red skin and firm flesh. This choice suits an early harvest with striking skin. Cherie is also offered for storage, letting you grow some on and spread its uses.

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Cherry Bell: discover its flavour and how to grow it

Round, red radish for small, repeated harvests. Choose Cherry Bell for a recognisable round, red harvest in a short row. Successional sowing gives more young portions than one large sowing.

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Chiba Green: discover its flavour and how to grow it

Compact soya bean for green, well-filled edamame. Choose Chiba Green for compact, upright plants and concentrated pod set. This needs an organised harvest round when several pods reach the correct green size together.

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Chinese Giant Sweet: discover its flavour and how to grow it

Large bell peppers with abundant flesh: an old variety for generous portions and a substantial greenhouse position. Choose Chinese Giant Sweet for large bell peppers to contrast with small Mini Bell or round Sweet Cherry.

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Chinese Red Giant: discover its flavour and how to grow it

Chinese Red Giant makes a large rosette with red leaves. Full leaves look different from fine-leaved Frills selections. Choose this variety to harvest both colour and somewhat firmer leaves. Large leaves need sufficient growing space.

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Chinese cabbage: fill your autumn bed with tender, crisp heads

Chinese cabbage develops into an elongated head with soft leaves and firm ribs. A late-summer sowing can bring another harvest to an empty bed. Give the plant space and even moisture, and choose a variety for your season; an early cold start may encourage flowering instead.

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Chocolade Peer: discover its flavour and how to grow it

Pear-shaped, dark red to brown tomatoes with green shoulder nuances: a mid-season variety with a firm, juicy interior. Choose Chocolade Peer for a dark pear shape to contrast with yellow pear-shaped cherries.

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Chojuro: flavour and growing

Crisp white flesh; thinning sometimes needed.

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Chou de Naples: discover its flavour and how to grow it

Chou de Naples is a Batavia lettuce with lightly curled leaves and a firm, not fully closed head. Its name does not make it a cabbage crop. Choose this selection for more bite than soft butterhead lettuce, while the head remains looser than classic iceberg.

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Christmas: discover its flavour and how to grow it

Large, marbled lima beans on a vigorous climber. Choose Christmas for large white and reddish-brown marbled beans and a tall climbing crop. The unusual bean shape suits a small trial patch with warmth and enough season.

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Growing lemons: a garden full of flavour

A potted lemon combines scented white flowers with fruit for cooking and drinks.

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Lemon balm: varieties, growing and uses

Lemon balm invites you to create a scented corner: brush the leaves with your hand and think of fresh lemon peel. Plain green, golden or variegated leaves also make it attractive among other herbs. Give this vigorous grower a clearly defined space of its own.

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Claire Austin: growing rose

White flowers on a climbing framework.

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Growing Clapton: white cauliflower and careful clubroot management

Clapton forms white, firm heads and is listed by the RHS among varieties resistant to clubroot. Discover what this property means and how to care for the plant from healthy start to harvest.

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