+ Plant heat-hardy veg and flowers now for winter: parsley, ruffly colored kale, and carrots that can forge their method into the coolness beneath. Select rabbit-eared lettuce varieties, those derived from the weeds that when grew alongside the Nile in historic Egypt. Hearted lettuce might rot or go to seed. Attempt my favourites: ‘Freckles’ lettuce (it has crimson spots) will ignore the warmth, and refuse to show bitter; Chinese language cabbage, any veg with the phrase ‘wok’ or ‘bok’ in it; mizuna, mitsuba, native warrigal spinach, alyssum and Iceland poppies, that look delicate however are nonetheless near their wild ancestors, and tough sufficient to bloom on a baking Mediterranean hillside.
