Peas in Earth

[rsc]

Balmy temperatures in the mid-40s, and this unfamiliar-looking bright disk-like object in the sky: clearly it was time.

There is still snow here and there in Gloucester, but fortunately none in the bed designated for this year's peas, so the first crop is in the ground: two kinds of snap peas this year (Super Sugar Snap and Mega), plus the snow peas. I can't recall when the first crop has ever gone in so late.

We decided it was a little soon for radishes -- there still was some snow in the tub, and I pointed out that if they did what the seed packet said (which they never do) they'd be ready around May 9, which is sooner than we're likely to have a use for them.

Next week is supposedly going to have temperatures approaching 70, and it's not even supposed to be raining. So we should be able to do some serious garden work, maybe even turn the water on.

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[drevilmoo.livejournal.com]

We decided to go pretty much with "standard" peas, if you will. The green peas are "alaska" which the packet describes as "suitable for areas with short growing seasons or very hot summers". That seems to fit us just right. Oddly, the seeds were from a company in MA.

I really must get the trellis up this weekend.

[rsc.livejournal.com]

We decided to go pretty much with "standard" peas, if you will.

We've always figured, why go to all that trouble and still have to shell the peas?

I really must get the trellis up this weekend.

Yes, we always say this shortly after the trellis should have gone in.

[drevilmoo.livejournal.com]

Greg (photoglh) doesn't care for snow peas, so it's standard peas for us. Besides, that's the only way the black eyed ones come!

The trellis is up! We used left-over chicken wire to make an arch between the rows. Now I have to figure out how to kill the inevitable fire ant mounds that will appear under the wire.

greenage

[ilexv.livejournal.com]

Robert, welcome to the club of people who are figuring out what to put into their journals!

I put a picture of my perennial bed as a comment to my last entry. This garden is an intentional breakaway when I ditch this place.

I hung the hammock yesterday but haven't been in it.

My neighbor is busily updating his seasonal displays. He has such a mishmash of pots it is truly a collection. But I would never tell him that directly of course.