I love growing old heritage varieties of peas and beans...but
Most of the old varieties don't give you a sweet, tender and prolific crop. This year I decided to grow
Hurst Greenshaft peas and they are just starting to crop. Most of these pods have 10 or 11 peas inside. Sweet and tender!
Beautiful hot weather in London again today. Up in the 80's and these wonderful
cirrus clouds were on show in my back garden. Every so often I like to visit the
Cloud Appreciation Society website to look at their gallery.
These old pea and bean varieties have a beautiful show of flowers. This is a climbing bean variety called
Mrs Fortunes. Look at these beautiful pink flowers.
The pumpkins and courgettes are enjoying the hot weather and the trailing varieties are growing about a foot a day at the moment. This is a variety of squash called
Tromba D'Albegna - it should bend round when it is ripe to resemble a trombone!
And finally...... do we really need Brussels sprouts in the supermarket? Flown all the way from South Africa?....
in June?.. I think not.
What about you?
Most of the old varieties don't give you a sweet, tender and prolific crop. This year I decided to grow Hurst Greenshaft peas and they are just starting to crop. Most of these pods have 10 or 11 peas inside. Sweet and tender!
Beautiful hot weather in London again today. Up in the 80's and these wonderful cirrus clouds were on show in my back garden. Every so often I like to visit the Cloud Appreciation Society website to look at their gallery.
These old pea and bean varieties have a beautiful show of flowers. This is a climbing bean variety called Mrs Fortunes. Look at these beautiful pink flowers.
The pumpkins and courgettes are enjoying the hot weather and the trailing varieties are growing about a foot a day at the moment. This is a variety of squash called Tromba D'Albegna - it should bend round when it is ripe to resemble a trombone!
And finally...... do we really need Brussels sprouts in the supermarket? Flown all the way from South Africa?.... in June?.. I think not. What about you?
Definitely not! (and I say that even if i liked them!)
ReplyDeleteHome grown Pak Choi is ready for picking.
On the same note I saw parsnips for sale in Sainsbury's this afternoon and pears on "seasons best" offers! It seems bonkers to me that they are even allowed to sell them.
ReplyDeleteAll looks well in your lottie :)
ReplyDeleteBrussels in June is just wrong, wrong!!!
I love looking at the cloud appreciation society, I have a friend who is a paid up member and very proud too!
I did not know there was a cloud appreciation society other than when we sit on our deck and watch the clouds go skittering by - guess we are a lccal chapter and did not even know it!?
ReplyDeleteOn the brussel sprouts - short answer - NO.
This business of trying to please our every whim and food interest as if we were kings and queens of old... is absurd, killing our planet, and wasting valuable and limited resources.
And we don't need potatoes from Egypt either!
ReplyDeleteHi Matron,all of your veg is doing great, ours are a bit behind but our temps while warm for us are not nearly as high as London.
ReplyDeleteI have not seen BS on sale here but they would defintely be a NO!
Did you buy those sprouts Matron!
ReplyDelete: ) I know your making a point, a fair one too and I totally agree.