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First box all but demolished!
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Now reached about 10cm (04/06/08)
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| 22/06/08
- Some of the plants are doing exceptionally well, others have been
stripped bare! |
09/07/08
- Despite all odds, there are a few of the plants managing to hang
on in there. And look! |
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| 23/07/08
- Against all odds, the pea pods are surviving the constant snaol
attacks |
23/07/08
- The first few pods have been picked (and eaten) and plenty more
still growing. |
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| 08/03/09
- New house, new garden, new beginning, these are a handful of peas
and beans I have soaking on cottonwool indoors before planting out. |
09/03/09
- I also planted a handful of peas into a pot outside on 11/02/09.
These were covered with polythene for protection - now sprouting. |
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| 15/03/09
The pre-sprouted peas were planted out a couple of days ago and
have begun to grow. Hoping for a better crop this year. |
21/03/09
- 2 x trellis fpr peas & beans in foreground, 1 just visible
between those and the tomato house, wooden planters in background. |
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| 21/03/09
- As per last year's growing, I have also got peas in the strawberry
planters and at the back of the other veg seeds in these. |
05/04/09
- The first pot of peas is growing well and, so far, nothing has
attempted to eat them! |
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| 05/04/09
- The peas transferred from the tray of cotton wool are now well
through the soil. |
25/04/09
- A bit of sunshine and the peas are now beginning to look for something
to climb. |
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| 22/05/09
- The peas and beans are growing fairly well so far. |
22/05/09
- The peas along the edge of the square foot garden are growing
quickly. |
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| 22/05/09
- The first flowers are beginning to appear, so let's hope the winds
calm down soon to avoid any further losses or breakages. |
07/06/09
- The peas in the wooden planters have suddenly shot up and have
started to flower. |
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| 07/06/09
- The first pods are appearing on the earliest planted peas. |
13/06/09
- Peas in a tub within a mesh 'wigwam' |
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| 15/06/09
The sugarsnap peas are about 10cm high in left planter and new seeds
planted in right. |
16/06/09
- The first planted seeds have grown, flowered and are now getting
pods. |
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| 23/06/09
- Next lot of plants are developing lovely long pods. And still,
I am planting more peas. If they survive to picking, I'll have enough
for a year. |
23/06/09
- I planted another 24 sugarsnap peas into 2 tubs on the greenhouse
patio and built them a frame (bottom right of picture). |
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| 03/07/09
The first crop of peas. I use the pods for making vegetable stock
but have so many peas that I'm having to freeze bags of pods to
save wasting them. |
13/07/09
Peas seem to love it here! I'm picking pods almost every day and
can't eat them as fast as they are growing! That's last night's
'just passing' pickings. |
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| 13/07/09
That's a 500ml tub of shelled peas ready for blanching & freezing.
Others not shelled yet. |
13/07/09
Freshly shelled this morning, the pods make fantastic soup stock
but I've now learned they can also make excellent wine! |
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| 14/07/09
A few more peas picked in the passing whilst getting first cauliflower
and new potatoes |
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