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 →
Planting out the sugar snap peas
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 →
Turns out sugar snap peas are rather…snappy!
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 →
