I have planted the snow peas. I finished harvesting the celery and shallots from the front of this bed and then Tim put up the trellis for the spring peas. This year I think I'll plant just one trellis with sweet peas, snow peas, sugar snap peas and peas peas. It might be a bit difficult to see but I have a mixture of Mr Fothergills, Green Harvest and seed saved from last year. I just mix them up together and throw them in.
I sow really thickly because that's what the great organic gardener, Peter Cundall taught me. No complaints. I've always got way too many seeds becuase I save them from year to year and because I've been known to not check my records and while out and about on the internet or in garden shops purchase seeds "I need". Anyway, it seems to work. The soil looks dry in these photos but it isn't too bad. Maybe its the overcast day or early morning light.
All done. Waiting for spring. The leeks need harvesting. We've been eating our way through the potato crop so I should get onto that leek and potato soup! In the past, I used to try saving the potatoes and spread our consumption across as long as possible. I even bought a book on root cellaring. Either I don't put enough effort into it (true) or its more complex than I think (probably true) and I've had a lot of wastage. So, this year, I've resolved to just eat up our 17 kilos of potatoes fairly quickly. Not like at every meal but maybe once or twice a week we're eating the home grown potatoes. I have a big second fridge/freezer and I've been storing the potatoes, sorted into their types (as requested by Tim), in a crisper drawer in the fridge. They take up one and half drawers at the moment.
Other news in the garden: tomato harvesting still going on - though lightly. Most of the crop has been bottled. Pumpkins hardening off, winter vegies settling in, a few lettuces have been eaten by slugs - that's probably all the big news. Once the pumpkins are harvested in a month or so I think I'll plant that bed with broad beans.