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Push plants into an early harvest

Did you know that you can force some vegetable crops into an early harvest?

Forcing springtime bulbs by tricking them into bloom ahead of schedule is a favourite cheat of home gardeners.

Perhaps, when you bought your spring bulbs last year, you kept a few aside for forcing in a pot indoors as a little treat to cheer you up mid-winter. Or maybe you bought one of the prettily-presented pots of forced hyacinths that dot the flower shop windows around Christmas. But did you know that you ...