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My Enigma and Valentine (also later) have been wonderful too but like yours, Galina, are over now. Because of the drought in much of England, my plants are crispy brown and ready to harvest the seeds. Note to self not to leave them too long as sweet pea pods can eventually curl up into spirals and eject their seeds.

I've never tried cutting down to see whether a second flush could be encouraged so will be interested to hear how that goes. I have a feeling that if the pods are left till they're dry enough to harvest for seed, the plants will be spent and won't regenerate, but I'd be very happy to find out otherwise.

I also grow Matucana which is an old variety with two-tone purplish colouring nearer the wilder forms of edible pea. I'm hoping to have seeds of that variety to contribute to the Seed Circle this year. It's highly scented too.

Try as I might, for the last  few years I have had no new ideas and my audience (grand daughters etc. ) are now  grown up.

Enigma and Valentine did great this year.  Valentine started blooming much later and is still going strong with pure white flowers.  Enigma started pinkish cream white and again developed red flowers later and then stopped altogether.  My fault, I did not remove the developing pods.  So I have cut the vines down to a foot above the ground and left no pods on the plants.  Will this give me a second flush of flowers later in the year?  From never having grown sweet peas to addict in two short seed circles.  Thank you Vetivert. 

Next to last ever? Why?

Penultimate book now published.
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I have one more MS to go and that is it.

Glad to hear you're OK, Borlotti, my Dulcie lookalike had to go last year, I make do with neighbour cats now. I'm down to tomatoes, asparagus and a few new potatoes in pots now, got to keep growing something!

Hope you have had a really nice day Borlotti, good to hear you are doing well! Sorry to hear about Dulcie. AforAll is very quiet these days, but I still look in most days even though the only gardening I can do now is to grow the tomatoes, corn, courgettes, chillies and beans from seed for my friend and helper John to plant out and take care of for me. We share the seedlings and he takes home the greater part of the harvest too. It gives me such pleasure to see my small garden still producing, I'm so lucky to have John's help - around the house too.
Cheers
Tricia  (still around, but not posting much)

Doing well on Isle of Wight. Had to have Dulcie put to sleep last year with kidney failure. No animals but watching rescue bears at Wildheart Animal Sanctuary, Sandown. Thank you for birthday wishes, 82 today. Not sure how to add picture of my wild flower garden.

Many years ago on a different Garden website the users were challenged to write stories based on the 10 titles posted. One was to choose one title and post the result. I actually managed to write 7. This one was never really finished until this year (only 15 years or so late).
Only 66 pages, but cest la vie.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0FD3BFN2F

It sounds very promising. Good luck!