Lettuces usually shouldn't be planted near lavender: Leafy greens like nutrient-rich soil, while lavenders do better in drier conditions.

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In warm weather, some leafy greens need to be replaced because they "bolt" flowering, going to seed and acquiring a bitter taste.

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For example, in 2006 I was contacted by agricultural leaders in California following a tragic outbreak of e.coli traced to leafy greens.

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But I love dumping in handfuls of leafy greens and an avalanche of tofu and going on a fishing expedition for them later.

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But some fast juicers don't process leafy greens well, and they don't handle fine-textured wheat grass, a popular ingredient in the juicing world.

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They crush or press juice out of produce in a few minutes, leaving less waste behind than a fast juicer does, and they typically do a better job with tricky ingredients like wheat grass, nuts and leafy greens.

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Meals also usually include malum, a salad of chopped leafy greens and coconut, crispy poppadoms (a large circular piece of thin, spiced bread), dal (a type of lentil stew), coconut sambal (a spicy condiment), home-made chutney and of course, fragrant steamed rice.

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