MSN: Grow spinach? Plant this tall summer crop beside it now for bigger, longer harvests before it bolts In many small UK gardens, spinach fails just as salads begin. Here’s how one tall, heat-loving neighbour turns a short spring flush into weeks more picking.

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Anyone who has watched a lush row of ... Grow spinach? Plant this tall summer crop beside it now for bigger, longer harvests before it bolts TALL meaning: 1. of more than average height, or of a particular height: 2.

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of more than average height, or of a…. Learn more. You use tall to ask or talk about the height of someone or something. How tall are you? I'm only 5ft tall, and I look younger than my age.

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I am already as tall as she is. Tall describes that which is slim in proportion to its height, as a mast, a pine or other tree, a steeple, a person, possibly a cliff: tall houses may be found in some parts of the world; a tall cloud would be of small width and great comparative height. See also: big, difficult, gangling, gangly, hard, height, high, incredible, lanky, large, leggy, long, long-legged, long-shanked, long-stalked, rangy, rhetorical, stately, statuesque, stature, tall-growing, tallish, tall-stalked, unbelievable TALL definition: having a relatively great height; of more than average stature: tall grass. See examples of tall used in a sentence. tall (comparative taller, superlative tallest) (of a person) Having a vertical extent greater than the average. For example, somebody with a height of over 6 feet would generally be considered to be tall.

antonym quotations Antonym: short Being tall is an advantage in basketball. tall applies to what grows or rises high by comparison with others of its kind and usually implies relative narrowness. You use tall to describe things which are higher than usual, but which are also much higher than they are wide. So, for example, you talk about a tall tree or a tall chimney.