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Give Peas a Chance

Posted on June 30, 2011 | Leave a comment

The peas are doing exceptionally well this year

I’ve done three small successional  sowings of peas this year and they really are doing exceptionally well.  The variety is ‘Jumbo’ from Thompson & Morgan and it is living up to its name with long pods crammed with well-flavoured peas. With just two of us in the household, small sowings are perfect, providing a handful of peas each day to add to the same quantity of broadbeans and French beans.  If I’ve been to the fish shop, I will also add a handful of samphire – highly recommended.  Landlubbers can buy samphire from Waitrose.

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Gardening Leave

Posted on June 20, 2010 | Leave a comment

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This is the point when I ask myself why I’m going away. By the time I get back, despite enlisting friends to keep an eye on things, I’m sure the plants will have behaved like teenagers in their parents absence and gone a bit wild. I have moved most of the seedlings to a table in a shady spot where I think they will  survive best during my absence, whatever the weather.  We are harvesting a great crop of peas and broadbeans – they are particularly delicious mixed with samphire which has just come into season at the local fish shop.

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Timely advice for late April

Posted on April 29, 2010 | Leave a comment
  • If your tender half hardy perennials such as penstemon and lemon verbena have survived the winter, now is the time to cut them back
  • Sow maincrop peas and beetroot
  • Dead head naturalised bulbs to encourage good flowering in the future
  • Weed borders and apply a moisture retaining mulch
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Looking Good in the Garden

Posted on February 19, 2010 | Leave a comment

Peas, soaked overnight and sown in a length of gutter

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Two brackets attached to the greenhouse shelf are used to hold the gutter sown with peas

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Pots of Mara de Bois strawberries, overwintered in the coldframe, have been tidied and top dressed with fish blood and bone in readiness for an early greenhouse crop

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Autumn-sown cornflowers are growing in modules ready to go out in the garden in  a few weeks time

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The sword-like Astelia leaves look wonderful in the low afternoon sun

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In the garden: September 2009

Posted on September 22, 2009 | Leave a comment

In the garden: With the sweet peas finally finished and the gem squash foliage looking a bit worse for wear it was time to dismantle the twig obelisk, harvest the sweet pea seeds and pick the squash. A good soaking rain meant that the ground could be raked over and sown with Red Clover green manure.

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