Peabeans

Daily pickings

Late pea

Some of the pea crop has over matured and dried out, but they're easier to store like that and can be rehydrated in stews, or used as seed for later sowings.

Salade du jour

Pea season

Solstice peas

Optimistic pea futures

Late pea

A late crop of peas has germinated well in the warm soil - the mice are probably otherwise engaged with plenty of sunflower seeds.

Legumes

         The last of the pea crop and the first of the broad beans.

Swell pods

                          Main crop of peas ready to harvest.

Open the pod doors

Waiting in the wings

Mix and mash

Plenty of food around now. It all needs picking and storing, processing and eating. The first of the summer raspberries are ripe as the strawberry crop dwindles. Making jam with both, separately, together, with blackcurrants. Mix and mash.

Smugly

                       Smugly self-sufficient-ish, for a bit.

Peak pea

Pea pod

The plants need almost daily watering, but the pea pods are fattening nicely and the first are worth harvesting.

Clinging to bristles

The peas seem happy, although they're not keen on climbing old raspberry cane sticks because of the bristles. Scattering a few fennel leaves deters slugs and snails, although it's been so dry, and cold, that there's been no major mollusc appearance yet.