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She grows greens all year on a balcony. The secret is drainage, not space

  • Four square metres supplying around a third of the household’s greens
  • Both failures traced back to poor drainage
  • Rotation planning matters more than choosing varieties

Four square metres facing south, supplying about a third of the household’s leafy vegetables. Two years of failure, she says, came down to the same mistake.

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