Peas, have been a tale of two halves this year. Mangetout Oregon Sugar Pod has proved worth sticking with:
Compared to Petit Pois Waverex which has been an underperformer
Heres's the two, side by side, like two squads lining up for the anthems before a match.
Quite a difference in the peas side-by-side.
ReplyDeleteYou will be up to your ears in courgettes soon, we call them summer squash over here. i expect they are generally the same thing though ours tend to be crookneck. It looks like many gardeners over your way tend to grow a straighter type, more speckled than solid in color. Or its just what happens to be grown in the Allotment Garden blogs i have been following.
Its amusing how we eagerly await the first of them each summer and then by late summer we are foisting them upon anyone who will take them. I have one squashlet that i peek at every morning, i hope it will size up quickly. Since my brassicas got eaten by woodchucks i am looking forward to the next best thing.
it's all looking ery nice...I think your plot is much tidier and greener than mine!!
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ReplyDeletewoodchucks? Like our squirrels? Aren't pigeons bad enough without rodends to deal with too? I keep on finding conkers (horse chesnuts) growing on our plot. The nearest trees are about 50 yards away so I reckon they must be buried by squirrels. Having a burn (stream) nearby we also get water voles nibbling away at our bettroot and turnips in the winter.
Tany,
But I haven't had my shed burned down or taken on an extra plot! And I don't beleive you anyway.
Great peas, Mal. Dead impressed. Mine are CRAP; failed to properly net them, so pigeons ate half and pea moth buggered up the rest.
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