'Try them with pecorino and a cold glass of dryish white wine and feel smug': How to grow your own almonds

Associated with warmer climes than these, you can cheat geography and bask in the sense of glorious impossibility if you choose the right varieties.

Almonds look like small peaches until the green, fleshy outer layer splits open, indicating that the ideal harvest time is approaching.

Associated with warmer climes than these, you can cheat geography and bask in the sense of glorious impossibility if you choose the right varieties.