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Though St Brigid’s day (Feb 1) is considered the start of spring in the Celtic calendar, it is really still wintering outside in the veggie patch.

Though St. Brigid’s day (Feb 1) is considered the start of spring in the Celtic calendar, it is really still wintering outside in the veggie patch.

Though St Brigid’s day (Feb 1) is considered the start of spring in the Celtic calendar, it is really still wintering outside in the veggie patch.

The gentlemen with whom I share my home (one husband and one child) are disinclined, at the best of times, to partake of vegetables of any description, and though they might be tolerated as a necessary evil occasionally – on top of a pizza, for instance – salad leaves of any kind seem to give rise to a red line. They are, after all, food for rabbits – and I suppose I must have been a rabbit in a former life because they are one of my absolute favourite things. It winds me up though, that the only way to buy them is usually as a whole head of one kind of lettuce – boring! – or as a mixture in a bag – much more interesting and delicious, but it’s hard to get through a whole bag by yourself before they get limp and lifeless, and I hate waste. So this week I’ve been planting my own ‘cut and come again’ lettuce.