Extreme gardening



It had been raining for a week, but the final set of my pea plants really needed planting out so yesterday afternoon I took advantage of the break in the rain and went outside.

The plants were in the grow dome and I planted them up into a trough. When I brought them outside it was spitting. I then needed to tie them into the trellis as it doesn't start at ground level.

While I was doing that, the thunder and lightening started. So I'm kneeling on the patio in the pouring rain with lightening overhead. Then I had to sprint down the garden to close up the grow dome before I could come back inside.

And, of course, it isn't raining today.



The first set of Eat All peas, planted out on April 29th, are settling into their new home nicely, as are the Magnum Bonum I planted out a few days ago:



These are both heritage varieties, from the Heritage Seed Library. Eat All was one of my choices last year that I didn't get round to sowing. They're supposed to be very tall plants with pretty flowers and sweet pods. They're a round pea, and so should probably have been planted out long ago.

Magnum Bonum is a wrinkled pea, a strong and vigorous main crop with thick pods and tasty pods over several weeks (according to the catalogue).