A few weeks ago in a break in the cold weather I got enthusiastic and planted out some chitted peas and broadbeans under bottle cloches. I had long since written them off as another of my gardening mistakes.
Well Sundays little bit of sunshine got them excited, and up they have popped and a good percentage of my plastic bottles have a little splash of green in them.
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Isn't Nature wonderful!
I sowed broad beans outside last November and they all
germinated. They were about 4 inches high before the recent snow
and I thought they would have all died but no, they seem to be ok. :happy7:
Both peas and broad beans are capable of withstanding a little frost, especially under cloches. French beans on the other hand not.
Congratulations to both - here is to early harvests! :blob7:
Good for the soul too, on such cold grey days it really does wonders .
Broadies will withstand most things bar waterlogging. With peas it depends on the variety. Round-seeded ones are pretty hardy, and some at least will come through the winter. Wrinkle seeded ones will often rot in cold ground, so you may have been lucky.
Reminds me I need to harden off the broadies now so they can go out... we're past the weather that will kill them.....
The peas were all very hardly sorts: snow peas, latvian xmas peas, oregon snap, purple podded etc. All pretty touch cookies. But things have been a bit extreme. After over a month there was no sign of green so I had very much given up on them. After two days of sunshine they are already a couple of inches high.
Would seem they have the measure of the weather even if I have not.