Time to Enjoy a Bean That's in the Running for Greatness ; Food Spy

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WITH THE floods having taken their toll across the country, the discussion about the good sense of building houses on the flood plain is also scheduled for a long run, but the importance of the river valleys to market gardening will never be in doubt. The vale of Evesham and the banks of the Severn are home to a great many vegetablegrowers and at this time of year the pickers should be working around the clock.

Fortunately East Anglia and Kent (two other claimants to the title "Garden of England") have not been so hard hit by the unseasonal weather and supplies are getting through, but the price of some vegetables is climbing steeply. At Michli, a traditional greengrocer off Green Lanes in

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Time to Enjoy a Bean That's in the Running for Greatness ; Food Spy

N4, they have stopped buying runner beans because "our customers won't p...

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