Peas Ideas, Tips & Guides

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I try to support plants with natural materials whenever possible,  whether its runner beans, sweet peas or border perennials.  I’ve had lots of fun creating a woven trellis for my sweet peas with the cobnut ( a type of hazel) prunings that I collected last week.  It’s something I’ve never done before, but I was dealing with a quite narrow space where there wasn’t room for the usual  wigwams and I’m rather pleased with the result which is both attractive and surprisingly sturdy.  If you can’t lay your hands on coppiced hazel, I have noticed that jute netting is available – not the same, but more discreet than plastic and it can be composted at the end of the season. Hen & Hamm

This year I planted my sweet peas in a large galvanised water tank and once they had finished flowering I planted it up with a mixed bunch of leftovers from other parts of the garden – while everything else is gently subsiding into soft autumnal shades, this hotchpotch is continuing to perform in quite a jolly fashion. .

I’ve recently been to a press preview of new varieties from the Ipswich seed company and have whittled down the many to the few that I found most interesting.  Top of my list is the Wasabi Rocket with leaves that really do have the tang of wasabi.  I will be making the first sowing this weekend.  I also got a top tip from Colin Randall, their vegetable guru, who really does know his onions, potatoes, tomatoes – in fact any vegetable.  If flea beetle is a problem, sow vulnerable plants in containers at least 30cm tall – this is higher than fleabeetles can jump. Pea Terrain and Mange Tout Sweet H

The ‘Terrain’ late cropping peas and mangetout ‘Sweet Horizon’ that I was given to trial by Thompson & Morgan seem to be doing well in the greenhouse with plenty of flowers and pods that are starting to set. It’s all a

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Tulips look wonderful weaving through borders or massed in pots, but they can also amazing against a contrasting background.  My own house is off-white weatherboarding with pea green windows and doors, so dark colours are the order of the day here. I’ve mixed all the bulbs together f

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Sowing Sweet Peas I do like to sow my sweet peas in late autumn so that I can start picking them in June – and if I had enough space I would do another sowing in March to extend the picking season – but it is tricky enough as it is to find room for the autumn plants. Sowing in autumn means that if I do have any germination problems, I can resow.

Sweet Peas in Waiting The autumn sown sweet pea plants are looking very good in the coldframe and they seem perfectly content with my regime of benign neglect (i.e. occasionally peering inside the frame).

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Like many places, we are much in need of rain, having not had anything other than a brief smattering for a month. The forecast suggests some places might have thundery storms in response to today’s temperatures in the high 20s, but I don’t think we will be amongst them. I have been regularly watering pots, cutting beds and anything newly planted out, along with the greenhouse and Coop, but only rain can provide the thorough soaking the whole garden needs. The borders, however, generally don’t give the impression of suffering, although I suspect growth has been stunted in some cases.

A Sufficiency of Sweet Peas My autumn-sown sweetpeas always do really well, but inevitably they start to wind down just at the point when my friends spring-sown seeds get into their stride, so I’ve just sown some more to see if I can avoid ‘late-season sweetpea envy’ this year. Of course I’m making a rod for my own back – as much as I adore them, picking them is a time-consuming process and it is essential to pick as often as possible to avoid them setting seed.

Everything is growing skywards – the weather may bear little resemblance to summer, but the plants are loving it and (as I wrote before) rebuilding the vegetable plot seems to have dramatically reduced the slug and snail population in that part of the garden. Actually, for some unfathomable reason, there generally seem to be fewer in the garden, despite the predictions, and those I have seen have focused on munching the cornflowers to extinction while leaving most other plants untouched.The courgettes and squash growing in the straw bales are very happy – because they are growing in a medium that has remained slightly warm, the cooler wet weather has not affected them. Next to the straw bales are th

Hornbeam & Hazel Sweet Pea Arbour The combination of coppiced hazel and hornbeam has made a wonderful arbour for the sweet peas which will soon be scrambling up their supports. I will probably plant large leaved parsley in the central area where it will enjoy the dappled shade.

Normally by this time of year I’ve done loads of seed sowing in the greenhouse, but I’ve been concentrating on getting the garden tidy before everything starts into growth, so other than autumn-sown sweet peas, January-sown broad beans, and setting our potatoes to chit, it’s all still to do. I’ve come to the conclusion that delay is a good thing – ok, I won’t get super-early crops – but neither will I be struggling with low light levels and seedlings sulking in low temperatures. The key indicator is the

The latest issue of Gardening Which includes trials carried out re-using growbags and potting compost. These achieved

An Exercise in Barricade Building I’ve just prepared my bean trench and sown broad beans and peas – all quite straightforward and enjoyable. I then spent double the time erecting barricades to keep the foxes at bay.

Of Peas & Beans After all the struggles to get things growing earlier in the year, yet again nature has proved that when the conditions are right there’s no struggle involved.  The runner beans and French beans I sowed 2 weeks ago are growing fast in the greenhouse and will be hardened off over the next week before planting them out, the first sowing of peas (protected by a coldframe) are growing well and the broad beans have flower buds.

I’ve done three small successional  sowings of peas this year and they really are doing exceptionally well.  The variety is ‘Jumbo’ from Thompson & Morgan and it is living up to its name with long pods crammed with well-flavoured peas. With just two of

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A Lovely Pile of Peasticks I’ve recently visited the cobnut farm where they generously allow me to cram my car with their prunings. I am using the short twiggy ones for support in the borders while the taller ones will, in due course, be used for beans, peas and sweet peas.

Amsonia, Clematis and more Amsonia is a modest and undemanding beauty in the border This patio clematis from Raymond Evison has been growing happily in a pot for at least 5 years I’ve just picked the first sweet peas The Cooper’s Burmese is a fragrant delight I’m rather pleased with my rustic beanpoles Kiwi Jenny is blooming prolifically The Iochroma is rewarding being moved outdoors with an abundance of flowers

The early October sowing of sweet peas is coming along nicely.  I’ve followed Sarah Ravens advice and sown 2 plants to a pot so that they develop a really strong root system.  I’ve de

I refer to the ‘majus’ bit – the ammi are currently averaging two metres tall and have long outgrown the pea stick supports I gave them. These are autumn sown plants that romped away when I planted them out – I think in future I will make a point of pinching them out as soon as they start to put on a bit of height. I tried this wi

I’ve decided that having the builders replacing the roof requires a certain degree of fatalism and detachment on two counts.  Firstly, that there is only a ceiling and a tarpaulin between us and the outside world, and secondly the garden has disappeared under a mountain of building materials. Rather than fret about it I’ve been focusing my energies in the greenhouse where I’ve planted bulbs and sown seeds, including sweet peas that are now germinating nicely. Fortunately we have been very lucky with the weather and by the end of the week the roof will be weather tight.  Gardening however will remain impossible for some weeks to come.  

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Getting to the Root of the Matter – with Sweet Peas The advantage of sowing sweet peas in autumn is that you get a plant with a very well-developed root system that will romp away when you plant it out in the spring. To encourage root development you should pinch out the stem above the first set of proper leaves.

Spring seems to have ground to a bit of a halt and most of the perennials are still well hunkered down in the borders, so it is a perfect time to start putting plant supports in place. I haven’t yet made my annual pilgrimage to a nearby cobnut nursery  for a carload of pea sticks, but this morning I visited a local nursery that has just taken delivery of some, as well as beanpoles.  My beanpoles are still in good working order from last year (the secret is to stack them upright in a sheltered spot) but I bought a couple of bundles of pea sticks to get the process going. Local managed woodland is

Supporting Act I spent a couple of happy hours putting up my sweet pea and bean supports. They are either side of the coldframe so that later in the season when the supports are covered, they will filter the sun that reaches the coldframe so that I can plant my courgettes there.

Other than a brief trip to Amsterdam next week for work and to visit the Canal Gardens of Amsterdam, I’ll be posting about the home garden for a few weeks, so you can look forward to lots of  pictures of peas, beans, sweet peas and potatoes – bet you can’t wait!  In the mean time why not take a look at what was happening in the garden last year. ..

Woodstock Festival I’m having my own little festival going round the front door with pots of beetroot red ‘Woodstock’ hyacinths. I love this colour and it goes really well with the pea green woodwork.