Overwhelmed with fruit.
There is something very thereputic about shelling peas. I like to shell mine outside on my wooden seat but today it was raining when I came home from the allotment. So, I had to shell inside. I have an old arm chair in the conservatory that looks out onto the garden and I used this today. I have got a few pound off this first serious harvest. I did not take up the pea plants like I usually do. I have left the small ones on the plants and I will be picking them through the week. I do need the chicken wire supports though because I planted some new rows of Meteor pea where the winter onions have come out.
This was another case of: ‘I can’t do this before I do that’. The winter onions tops had fallen over, which meant that they would not get any bigger. I made an exective decision to harvest them all and store them on the staging in the home greenhouse. They are not too bad but they are affected by the leek miner grub. This meant that I could plant the Meteor peas.
Checked to see if there were any more gooseberries ready to pick. I got another couple of handfulls off them. Then I remembered that the blackcurrents were ready to be picked in earnest. It is amazing how much time it takes to strip blackcurrent bushes. I have now ended up with bright pink fingers. There were more strawberries and more raspberries.
I am getting a little fed up of eating these so I might start freezing them.
I took the enviromesh off the carrots and weeded them. I pulled several of them for salads, finally I put the enviromensh back by burying the skirt in the soil. Picked some of the rocket for salad. We have got plenty of lettuce so I did not bother getting one of them. I had a look at the March sown lettuce and it is going to seed now. I will pull them all up tomorrow and go onto the April sown lettuce.
I did general watering and weeding and finally put in the Meteor peas. They got a dose of mychorrhizal fungi. I really think that the jury is out on whether this makes any difference to the peas, however it guaranteed to do nothing in the packet.
I gave away a big bunch of sweetpeas. It is amazing the goodwill a gift like this generates. I was just glad I could get shot of them.
And the weather people got it wrong, it was windy but not raining. Every time I put pea plants in it is windy.�
