Showing posts with label Pea. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Pea. Show all posts

Thursday, 2 February 2012

July 2011

July saw the bees expanding well...


2011_07_11_Bees_LP2_Brood-1

And the heirloom peas starting to crop...


2011_07_06_Allotment_Pea_Salmon-flowered

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.


2011_07_06_Allotment_Pea_Carruthers-Purple-podded