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 Black peas with vinegar On Bury Market    yum     Also good on bonfire night.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_peas

You used to be able to get them in petfood stores       (Pigeon Peas  :D )

This site  http://www.countryproducts.co.uk/?gclid=CNCKmcabvqACFQYslAodZ2f-Sg   lists them.

 It might also be  worthwhile  trying the Health food and Asian shops


Item No.  390144254806  on ebay if you want a big bag.


Really big bag    http://www.amazinganimal.co.uk/maple-peas-20k-p-107.html   :o

sowing carrots today  ;D

Quote from: . on March 16, 2010, 21:46:06
Black peas with vinegar On Bury Market    yum     Also good on bonfire night.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_peas

You used to be able to get them in petfood stores       (Pigeon Peas  :D )

This site  http://www.countryproducts.co.uk/?gclid=CNCKmcabvqACFQYslAodZ2f-Sg   lists them.

 It might also be  worthwhile  trying the Health food and Asian shops

the smell of black peas always reminds me of the "wakes" or fairground.
thanks for the links
will I be able to sow the ones from the pet shop and get a crop do you think?
Item No.  390144254806  on ebay if you want a big bag.


Really big bag    http://www.amazinganimal.co.uk/maple-peas-20k-p-107.html   :o

Quote from: saddad on March 10, 2010, 19:15:54

Quote from: Deb P on March 10, 2010, 17:43:26
Tomatoes all done today,now in the heated propogator, chillies and peppers on top of the hot water tank, brassicas on the windowsill! ;D

Doing many for the sale Deb? I haven't been asked but there will be some left overs..  :)

Probably, I've sown four of each of about 54 varieties.......so over 200 so far, that's just the toms...... ;D

Jiust started sowing seeds indoors. So far I have done some pansies, cosmos, love in a mist and today I did autumn calabrese, and golden acre cabbages. Will sow some spinach out of doors at the weekend depending on the weather. So lovely to begin doing things at last. Was quite balmy outside today in the North East. busy_lizzie

Planted some jerusalem artchokes today.

Asked husband, who was going that way, to buy some for eating at a distant good veg shop, but he thought they didn't look right, so only got 2, plus a packet for planting, which was exactly what I wanted to avoid. £1 per tuber!!!!

The two eating ones he got were PERFECT, and were all I wanted.....but I wanted 10 of them.

Also cleared a row of potatoes I forgot to dig in the autumn, and was astonished at how clean and firm and perfect they were after months underground with snow and prolongued frosts.

Quote from: artichoke on March 18, 2010, 18:21:16
Planted some jerusalem artchokes today.

Asked husband, who was going that way, to buy some for eating at a distant good veg shop, but he thought they didn't look right, so only got 2, plus a packet for planting, which was exactly what I wanted to avoid. £1 per tuber!!!!

The two eating ones he got were PERFECT, and were all I wanted.....but I wanted 10 of them.

Also cleared a row of potatoes I forgot to dig in the autumn, and was astonished at how clean and firm and perfect they were after months underground with snow and prolongued frosts.

I put 2 in today as well (see my thread on Recipes) into 2 buckets. From what I read, the roots will multiply so you will have a bumper crop from next year.

Besides the Artichoke's I planted 2 Giant Garlic Bulbs, White Onions and Shallots.

Helipterum Pierrot - up

Ninny

hi all

all in propagator chives, parsley, thyme and yesterday shallots and garlic outside

Tomatoes, chillies and peppers all up, yesterday sowed some okra (thought I would give it a go!), celery, saladings in trays and lots of flowers and herbs. I plan to try and get the greenhouse ready for moving stuff into it today, some things will be ready to put out in there next week I reckon.... ;D

We are doing lots of tomato sowing. Sweet Millions, Roma, Marmande, Black Cherry, Golden Cherry and Tigerella. Looking forward to the variety of colours when harvest time comes. busy_lizzie

I put my toms in yesterday. Taxi, Harbinger, Clear Pink Early, Prima, Stupice, Buckbee 50 Day, Pipo. If we get a decent summer they might even escape the blight long enough to fruit.

Well,
with five of the six beds dug over and the Strawbs moved, I have sown cabbage, cauli, carrots, beetroot, and more cabbage.
This should be good for the family.

With the radio on in the greenhouse (I like to start singing to them early  ;)) and just enough light to sow!

Heated prop:

GERANIUM       TRAILING              SAVED
GERBERA         RED/PINK              SAVED
THYME             THYMUS SERPYLLUM    UNWINS
SAGE               GREEN              MR FOTHERGILL'S

No 1 Greenhouse under prop lids:

DIANTHUS                MIXED                        SAVED
COSMOS                  DWARF MIXED        SAVED
KALE                        DWARF GREEN CURLED JOHNSONS
CABBAGE                 PRIMO II                        WILKINSONS
CAULIFLOWER         ALL YEAR ROUND        WILKINSONS
CALABRESE             ITALIAN SPROUTING      MR FOTHERGILL'S
BRUSSELS SPROUT   EVESHAM SPECIAL        MR FOTHERGILL'S
BRUSSELS SPROUT   TRAFALGAR                    T & M

Ninny

I sowed some carrots, rhubarb, leeks and parsnips yesterday.  Leeks I sowed last week are already showing signs of having germinated.

I've just taken a tray of peas to the allotment, creating a space on the windowsill if I get a chance to plant any more. The family are probably going to be around though, and it makes for less friction to wait till they're out!

Petunias in one of those tiny 84 plug plant trays, using a white piece of paper to spread the seeds out
and a damp cocktail to stick to pick each one up, 1 per cell  ::), then into the heated prop.

It'll be interesting to see how many germinate, I sowed 67 T & M Tropical Storm and 17 saved seed.

Ninny

Never heard of using a cocktail stick but its a good idea.  I might try it for the carrotts.

first lot of broad beans in today - dreadnought + beetroot pronto, spinach, spring onions on a beautiful spring day that has now deteriorated into winds and rain  :(

Quote from: lottie lou on March 23, 2010, 20:07:31
Never heard of using a cocktail stick but its a good idea.  I might try it for the carrotts.

Beats tweezers hands down  ;D just make sure it's damp and twist the seed off into the soil.

Ninny