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until I went to Homebase and got 2 trays of mangetout for 20p each, bit floppy but otherwise fine.
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It was twelve days ago yesterday that I sowed mine direct and I was beginning to worry.
Went to allotment today and they are 2 inches high and ALL seem to have germinated.
I'll sow some more on the other side of the fence in a week or two to give a succession!
My Majesty made for him a garden anew in order
to present to him vegetables and all beautiful flowers.- Offerings of Thutmose III to Amon-Ra (1500 BCE)
Diversify & prosper
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Will be picking my Kelvadons next week. Loads of well needed rain has helped in the last couple of days. Likewise with the Broad beans with not a blackfly in sight.Comment
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No blackfly here either so I've just let my beans keep growing and not pinched out the tops. Lowest pods are nearly ready.Comment
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Picked some Poppet today from the polytunnel but the first ones outdoors are a bit to go yet. Mangetouts pretty much finished inside and hopefully picking outdoors in about two weeks. Meant to direct sow my final row today but netting the strawberries took an age so they'll probably have to wait until next weekend but that will be fine.
Am envious of those of you with broad beans almost ready, my pods are only the size of a thumb nail, have done the same as last year and was picking in June then, shows what a difference the cold weather made
Some of us live in the past, always talking about back then. Some of us live in the future, always planning what we are going to do. And, then there are those, who neither look behind or ahead, but just enjoy the moment of right now.
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Shhhhhhhh!!!!Originally posted by solway cropper View Post
My Majesty made for him a garden anew in order
to present to him vegetables and all beautiful flowers.- Offerings of Thutmose III to Amon-Ra (1500 BCE)
Diversify & prosper
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Had some mange tout yesterday - quite nice.
can you pop a pod open to save the seed from them?Comment
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We've been eating Goldensweet mangetout for a week or so. Lovely. I save seeds from these Chris. Leave a few pods on the plant to ripen. They will swell up , but lumpily, not smoothly like a shelling pea. Leave them till they are crispy (or of we have a typical British summer, till they are looking leathery and dry them inside). Then the seeds are ripe and you'll get excellent germination next year.Originally posted by chrismarks View PostLast edited by Flummery; 07-06-2010, 08:45 AM.Whoever plants a garden believes in the future.
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cool thanks flum
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