Seasons: Winter

The Spanish jasmine of the perfume trade, grown widely in the north and west.

Regrows from the root end of a shop-bought bunch — the cheapest crop there is.

Plant single cloves in October and lift whole bulbs in March.

Jowar — drought-hardy grain and fodder in one, on almost no inputs.

Bush beans for winter troughs; pole kinds for a balcony net.

The winter sem of the plains, purple-flowered and heavy-cropping on a fence.

A winter pulse that also gives the sour green leaf of the north.

Cut-and-come-again greens ready in six weeks from a shallow trough.

Sow thickly in a wide tray and cut the whole crop at three weeks.

Peppery leaves in five weeks, and yellow flowers for the bees after.