Fill the ‘hungry gap’ with Chinese cedar

The Asian spring crop, common as an ornamental plant in British gardens, has delicious leavesSpring is in the air! But as any allotmenteer will know, the sad irony with seeing the first signs of new life burst forth is that it is usually one of the leanest months in the British veggie patch. Traditionally known as the “hungry gap”, this period describes the window where stocks of stored autumn and winter veg are running low, but the first spring crops have yet to mature. The term is