Tag: Peas

  • It’s All About Peas – Very Early Peas planted out into the ground in early April.

    It’s All About Peas – Very Early Peas planted out into the ground in early April.

    As part of my plan to grow peas for most of this year successionally (which means one after another), it’s now early April and the very early peas variety: Oskar have been planted outside in our raised bed. The 9 pea plants are each about 3 inches high. The very early pea ‘Oskar’ were sown…

  • I Love Peas and I want to grow them all year

    I Love Peas and I want to grow them all year

    I love growing peas and a few years ago I managed to grow them successionally for a few months during the spring and summer. This year I want to try and grow peas one variety after the other from sowings in early February to October which means I need a very early variety to start…

  • Pea flowers mean Pea Pods on the way

    Pea flowers mean Pea Pods on the way

    I’m so excited, as it will soon be time to pick the peas in the vegetable garden that never make it to the kitchen. I love the first peas of the season and the pea flowers are so dainty, white and I could look at them all day long. Then come the bees and insects…

  • Week 2 in May – Vegetable Planting Progress

    Week 2 in May – Vegetable Planting Progress

    Pea’s have been planted out and are shooting up I sowed my Peas in root trainers on 20th March and planted them out towards the end of April. They have been in the ground for 2 weeks now and settled in and have started to shoot up the netted wigwams. They have not been protected…

  • 5 Easy Vegetables to Grow in May in your Garden

    5 Easy Vegetables to Grow in May in your Garden

    1. Radish Radishes have got to be the Number 1 easiest vegetable to grow. Push the seeds into the soil in March onwards in pots or the ground and ‘hay presto’ a radish after a minimum of 4 weeks. Radishes are a great vegetable to start children off growing with as they are a quick…

  • How to Sow Early Peas into Root Trainer Cells

    How to Sow Early Peas into Root Trainer Cells

    We started sowing two varieties of Pea this year in the middle of March. This is very early however we are trying to get as much out of our vegetable plot this year so are attempting to see if we can get peas out onto the plot and producing by the end of April. As…

  • Vegetable Seeds to Sow in March

    Vegetable Seeds to Sow in March

    Some of you eager beavers (an English saying for being quick off the mark) might have already started sowing your seeds as the weather has become milder in recent days. However a word of caution here. There are still frosts and we may not be out of Winter totally yet which could still kill tender…