The early vegetables are growing good and there is some progress on new raised beds. I need to thin the beets and probably get the melons, cucumbers, beans, and squash started indoors but I still don't trust the weather 2 weeks out. Too many side projects.
@alameth So I poked around a bit. 'Snak Hero' was developed by Syngenta and released circa 2020 (?), so new enough I've never heard of it. It's marketed as being extremely productive on very short plants that don't need support, and happy in pots. Pushed pretty heavily in northern USA for ability to set fruit in colder, shorter season. But reason it is winning awards is the strange shape of the fruit, which is almost round unlike other snap varieties. People love it. #peas https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WitWaKEa6g0
My peas I leaves with you.
I love fresh peas in the garden, and I remember my dad growing mountains of them. They've been very frustrating to me, though: an entire year's worth of growth in an 8' plot only produced enough for snacking. This cultivar is meant to grow in hanging bowls, and drape over the side of the bowl. So far they're just a tangled mess. But the flowers are still pretty.
I'm using pine needles for paths at the community garden. Free, but I also love the look, the smell, and even the crunch they make as you walk on them. Reminds me of my grandmother's garden in Mattapoisett, MA. #peas #garden #gardening #allotment #pine #mulch #pinus
Garden update: potatoes are up, peas and fava beans beginning to flower. Might even transplant the lima beans under cloches today. #garden #gardening #allotment #potatoes #peas #favabeans
Peas, beets, radish, spinach, and arugula. I tasted a French breakfast radish the other day, it's like a spicy carrot but it was small too. I guess they're good on toast with butter and pepper. Warm low temps forecast for a week so everything should start growing more and I need to get those raised beds finished if the warm is going to continue.
Century-old #genetics mystery of #Mendel’s #peas finally solved
Researchers pinpoint the #genes responsible for the final three pea traits studied by the famed citizen scientist. https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-01269-8
...Achieved thanks in large part to the efforts of that international organization, "Green Peas."
(It's #HootinTootinTuesday again! Post some jokes or funny memes under this hashtag today, and bring lots of smiles to #Mastodon.)
I was going to loop some cotton between two sticks, maybe cross it, for the peas, so I was measuring things.. then I went looking for some old bird netting I have.. but then I saw the half height plastic mesh fencing and one of them was ripped up so I decided to just use it.
Problem solved for now, probably new one created for later.
#gardening #peas #SugarSnapPeas
#garden #GrowYourOwn #trellis
Beets and peas. I put some stakes in but I probably need something better. I'm trying to avoid something that interferes with my lazy gardening like synthetic netting full of pea and cucumber stems that I'll spend an hour cleaning to reuse. ;) Been there, done that.
A 4 foot wide raised bed is a lot bigger than the 3 foot ones. I got the two pepper beds finished. They are each 8 feet long. Just need to open up the poly sheeting and and dig a bit of the good dirt out so it's flat or dished and then stack some sticks in the bottom, or cardboard, or both.
I planted a couple of lettuce stumps too that were regrowing in the lower right bed, and put some stakes next to some peas.
Rhubarb and peas. I probably should put some cardboard down around the rhubarb now that it's probably all up from wherever it's going to come up to cover up some of that grass. The peas are slowly getting taller, need to put some twine down from the trellis next to them.
Garden update. Rhubarb growing nicely in the new spot, everything else growing slowly. There are a lot of first true leaves on the peas, radish, and spinach. Lots of beets to thin out.
Maybe the first sugar snap pea. It's been 3 weeks since they were planted.
In promising news, one of my 'First 13' peas has clasped the trellis. Burpee says that the variety can have 13 peas per pod — the genetic maximum for the species — but last year (2nd pic) they tended to have only 9 or 10. Still delicious, and a great producer, so I don't feel cheated. #peas #pisum #garden #gardening
