Proof that vegetable growing can be done by anybody. From a couple of under 30s – one who grew up growing and one who has just got going…
The sugar snap peas are moving rapidly at the moment. In the space of a week, they went from their first flowers forming to lots and lots of pods! We even managed to have a few in a stir fry over the weekend. I think we harvested them slightly prematurely, but they still tasted delicious,... Continue Reading →
Since we planted them out, we haven't needed to give the sugar snap peas too much TLC at all. We've watered them a couple of times as it has been so dry here, but other than that we've been able to just sit back and watch them grow. We noticed this week that they were... Continue Reading →
We sowed some sugar snap peas, Cascadia, on 26 April and yesterday, these were big enough to plant out. We constructed a climbing frame for them to grow up out of some old square wire fencing which we stretched across the bed and held in place by tying it to a few stakes, one at... Continue Reading →
A quick sugar snap pea update! We sowed these on 26 April, and the first signs of them germinating was on 2 May, so just under a week. We had been checking on them each day to see whether they'd germinated. When we sowed them, we covered with a couple of sheets of newspaper to... Continue Reading →
We know we like to eat sugar snap peas, but we've never grown sugar snap peas before. So this is a new one for us for 2020. We're trying a variety called Cascadia, so we'll see how we get on. We first filled some cell trays with multipurpose compost. We tend to grow peas and... Continue Reading →
