got back yesterday to find a box on the doorstop from Victorian Nursery Centre, containing my packet of Colossal Climbing Peas and a couple of rhubarb plants...
Can't wait! I'll probably plant them in some jiffy pots in the "greenhouse" just to get them going nice & early, and to stop the possibility of the seeds rotting in this cold, wet weather.
I prepared the runner bean bed with well rotted manure & a load of shredded paper & cardboard last year, so I think I'll only grow half a row of runners this year (had far too much from them last) and the peas on the other side of the row.
Any other tips/gotchas with these? Will they happily climb up canes like runner beans?
Also trying Colossal climbing peas for the first time, now an inch high in peat pots. (Ah it's just started snowing here! :o)
I thought Victorian Nursery Certre was quite pricey for those peas and while I was uhming and ahing whether to get them I found some at a local garden centre for £1.99 ;D
Does the Victorian Nursery Centre have a website?
My seedlings are doing well too! I'm planing to grow them up canes, just like I do runner beans.
Web address = www.victoriana.ws
Lillypad
Ani - yes, I thought they were rather expensive too. Had to make the order up to a minimum £10 otherwise I would have also incurred a £4 minimum order surcharge, so I got some Victoria rhubarb as well, which was nice!
Unfortunately I had been unable to find climbing peas in any of my local garden centres.
However, it is a packet of 500 seeds, which is about double the norm, so the premium came to something like £1 for a standard sized packet.
I'll be giving about half of them to my dad, so the double packet size isn't wasted in this case.