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Orig­i­nal­ly uploaded by Philip Fier­linger
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Some­times we at the Welling­ton­ista must admit that even we, strange though it may seem, do not know every­thing about our fine city (and in this case, its cli­mat­ic pecu­liar­i­ties). So peri­od­i­cal­ly we must call upon the mighty and eru­dite col­lec­tive wis­dom of our read­ers to fill in the gaps.

Many of you may have noticed the arrival of spring­time, if only to observe the mar­gin­al­ly warmer tem­per­a­tures, a sus­tained breezi­ness, and an increased rate of sneez­ing expe­ri­enced between your front doors and that of your air-con­di­tioned work­places. But not all of you fall into this cat­e­go­ry, and it is of you in par­tic­u­lar we are enquir­ing today.

You see, some in the Welling­ton­ista (and again, this may be a lit­tle shock­ing) live in the sub­urbs. And some of us actu­al­ly have areas of flat ground reserved for the grow­ing of things that can be eat­en (it is true that some apart­ment-dwellers have a cou­ple of ter­ra­cot­ta pots on their bal­conies for the same pur­pose — the fol­low­ing may apply to them too), called “veg­etable gar­dens”.

And so the ques­tion we have for you today is: What should we be plant­i­ng in our “veg­etable gar­dens” right now?

We sus­pect that pota­toes are good at the moment. But we won­der: what else is good, assum­ing that it’s both legal and tasty? If we were to get plant­i­ng this com­ing week, what’s best?

Answers, please, dear read­ers.