Saturday, 7 January 2012

Give peas a chance

Mesh for pea plants
The peas have been bashed about by the very strong winds last week, and were looking a bit forlorn, so I've given them something to climb up. Next time I will put in the supporting mesh as soon as the peas are in the ground. The canes and mesh are re-used from my  last garden, and since those peas came down with powdery mildew I left the equipment to soak in a fungicide solution before setting it up, in the hope that any spores are killed and I don't introduce a harmful species to this garden.

One of the broad bean plants had its stem broken, so I cut that off to a few inches above ground level. Possibly the root system will have enough stored energy to grow new stems and leaves.
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  1. Andrew James Brown7 January 2012 at 13:36

    Hello! Happy New Year. Hope all is well with you. I happened to see a link in my blogger stats that made no sense to me - I clicked on it and, lo, there you were. Marvellous.

    So greetings from all of us in Cambridge.

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  2. Matt8 January 2012 at 09:37

    Hello Andrew, Happy New Year to you too!

    Things are going well here, I feel settled into the area and as you can see I've been busy in the garden.

    I read and enjoyed that Robert Pogue Harrison book you recommended, and gave a copy to my dad for Christmas. Thanks for that suggestion.

    Hope all is well with you.

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