I’ll be reducing my spend if nothing else.
I’ve just been watching two woodpecker chicks being fed by their dad!! It’s stormy here and the light is crap.. I will try and get pics tomorrow.
It’s the pigeons now.. a pair are making a nest in the tree right by the raised beds. One stood on a branch this afternoon, twig in beak, eyeing up me and my peas. It was only six feet away and even when I spoke it just sat there, calm as you like, sussing the place out.
They look good enough to eat! And if that had been me, I would most probably have eaten them before I had got as far as finding my camera to take a photo! Your self control is admirable…….
But what beautiful peas they are.You just need to market them, say, the way they do Kobe beef. “Eachpod received a daily massage and lullabye, and was only watered with Evian!” $10/pea. 🙂
Lovely, fresh photo – and I bet they were tasty. We’ve had salad leaves and some strawberries….. I thought (must go to Specsavers….) your post heading was ‘Crap!’ x
No strawberries yet! I only have one small pot of them, but I’ve got it under netting to keep those pesky blackbirds off.
You had me checking the post title… !
I aim for succession. It’s difficult to find the exact balance between not having enough at any one time, and a glut! Particularly for mange tout because there’s a very fine window when they are just right for picking.
Yum! Still warm from the sun – the best!! And at least your ‘other half’ didn’t calculate the cost per pea, as a friend of ours used to do as he carefully counted the eggs… and it was him who built a palace for the hens in the first place!!
Hens have a sentimental value that goes well beyond the humble egg!
Totting up the cost per pea would be truly scary… railway sleepers for the beds, irrigation system, nematodes (£40 so far this year) etc etc. Veggies must have sentimental value too!
Lovely – unbeatable fresh veg from your own garden. Even if the first crop isn’t much, it does taste wonderful (like that first strawberry – not long now!)
If I only ate what is growing in the garden, I would be living on fresh herbs! At times I miss growing veggies, but I don’t have the time with all the sewing I am doing just now! (although friends and family don’t miss having my excess courgette crop forced on them!)
Neither of us like courgettes but I gather they can get pretty rampant! Our problem is having only a very small freezer, there’s little room to store any over production. Something we will have to sort out if veggie growing takes off.
Yummy munchies while walking around the garden 🙂
In a week or two they’ll be enough for snacks for sure.
Hurrah!
Give it time and the John Lewis Partnership will be anxiously looking over their shoulder.
I’ll be reducing my spend if nothing else.
I’ve just been watching two woodpecker chicks being fed by their dad!! It’s stormy here and the light is crap.. I will try and get pics tomorrow.
MMM but they look so delicious, well done.
They were .. 🙂
How many did the mice get?!
It’s the pigeons now.. a pair are making a nest in the tree right by the raised beds. One stood on a branch this afternoon, twig in beak, eyeing up me and my peas. It was only six feet away and even when I spoke it just sat there, calm as you like, sussing the place out.
They look good enough to eat! And if that had been me, I would most probably have eaten them before I had got as far as finding my camera to take a photo! Your self control is admirable…….
The first ones are always special, to be celebrated!
But what beautiful peas they are.You just need to market them, say, the way they do Kobe beef. “Eachpod received a daily massage and lullabye, and was only watered with Evian!” $10/pea. 🙂
They are certainly organic. No chemicals. Nourished by well rotted compost, ample pure rainwater, mouse, squirrel and deer pee.
Oh yummy! ;P
Lots of flowers coming now. From five to a glut!
Lovely and better than any you’ll find in a supermarket, I probably would have eaten them before I got them back to the house though! Julie x
It is wonderful to eat them straight off the plant! Makes all the effort worthwhile.
That’s your 5-a-day!!!
Absolutely!
Oh I say!!!! Mow don’t eat them all at once….lol xxxx
Less than a mouthful, but a tasty one!
Amazing! Our dwarf beans only have two leaves on them after a month in the ground. This does not bode well for our crop.
Mine are exactly the same Em, the peas have done OK but the beans are lagging well behind.
How many air miles?
About 30 yards. Less than 5 minutes picking to pan.
Perfect…you may declare yourself officially carbon neutral!
The trouble is, it’s a 30 mile round trip to do the rest of the shopping.. !
Oh, that reminds me of our one cauliflower last year – it measured all of 2cm across its width – no more than a couple of mouthfulls really:)
I’ve only tried growing cauliflower once, I remember the variety was called ‘All the Year Round’. I remember because I didn’t even get one!
It’s a start. Plenty more to come I’ll bet.
There are loads of flowers on the plants, so I hope so! Something that seems to have enjoyed the weather anyway.
Lovely, fresh photo – and I bet they were tasty. We’ve had salad leaves and some strawberries….. I thought (must go to Specsavers….) your post heading was ‘Crap!’ x
No strawberries yet! I only have one small pot of them, but I’ve got it under netting to keep those pesky blackbirds off.
You had me checking the post title… !
I bet they tasted better than any supermarket ones imported from goodness knows where!
That’s the thing about growing your own isn’t it. I steam them too, to maximise the flavour. Lovely!
It’s a good start, remembering our Cherry crop last year (one whole Cherry) I am absurdly jealous 🙂
I hope you shared it out fairly..
Haha, I don’t like cherries much to my Lovely Hubby’s relief, it was used a top a creamy pudding and enjoyed for a second or two by him 🙂
Sometimes one is better than a thousand..
The best is yet to come! Just think of all those peas that’ll be coming along very soon.
I aim for succession. It’s difficult to find the exact balance between not having enough at any one time, and a glut! Particularly for mange tout because there’s a very fine window when they are just right for picking.
That looks like my strawberry harvest – 1.5 each.
Flowers here, but no fruit yet 🙁
Yum! Still warm from the sun – the best!! And at least your ‘other half’ didn’t calculate the cost per pea, as a friend of ours used to do as he carefully counted the eggs… and it was him who built a palace for the hens in the first place!!
Hens have a sentimental value that goes well beyond the humble egg!
Totting up the cost per pea would be truly scary… railway sleepers for the beds, irrigation system, nematodes (£40 so far this year) etc etc. Veggies must have sentimental value too!
No unnecessary food waste there then lol!
Not yet!! 🙂
Lovely – unbeatable fresh veg from your own garden. Even if the first crop isn’t much, it does taste wonderful (like that first strawberry – not long now!)
I am watching those strawberries like a hawk. This year it will not be the slugs that get to them first!
They look beautiful. Well done!
Thanks Oma. Every little helps, as they say!!
Yet will be the operative word there, just you wait and see … and they look delicious!
After last year, to be honest, any sort of harvest will be welcome. Thanks Annie.
That’s five more than I have got here!
I will count my blessings then..!
If I only ate what is growing in the garden, I would be living on fresh herbs! At times I miss growing veggies, but I don’t have the time with all the sewing I am doing just now! (although friends and family don’t miss having my excess courgette crop forced on them!)
Neither of us like courgettes but I gather they can get pretty rampant! Our problem is having only a very small freezer, there’s little room to store any over production. Something we will have to sort out if veggie growing takes off.
Wonderful photo… perhaps you could market that ? !
Thanks Penny. I rather like the ‘levitating’ ones… they are taken through the glass kitchen table.
That is the most beautiful pea photo
Thanks Elaine, they were good to eat too!!
A great photo I’m sure they tasted good and hopefully the first of many to come!
Sarah x
Thanks Sarah. Fingers crossed..
I’ll take 2 1/2 bites of fresh over the supermarket any day!!
Quite right!