And the heirloom peas starting to crop...
The Salmon flowered pea (above) is beautiful but with all the flowers at the top of the stem does tend to crop all at once on each plant. Varience between plants and successional plantings give a better coverage.
Another of this years swop introductions was Carruthers Purple Podded. It looks fantastic, cropped well and is by far the sweetest of all the purple podded varieties i have tried.
When did you get the bees? If you'd just bought a nuc (it looks that way), then they're fine. If that's an established colony, I'd have been raising a new queen from a better one!
ReplyDeleteThe bees came as nuc's (x2) in the last week of June from the "Beehive Maker" at Carlisle which was as local as i could source them . Queens are 2010 (Blue). They progressed quite well apart from one major mis hap. more posts soon . Think those peas where yours.
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