Some up and some downs

A bit of a disappointment this year was my gooseberry bush "red dessert, earlier on in the year the plant had lots of baby gooseberries on. The trouble is, they never got any bigger, just turned red. I am fairly sure they should have got a lot bigger. I believe the pot they were in was to small for the plant, so I think the plant did not get enough water during the growing season. It has now been moved to a larger pot

Pea's - Champion of England. This is the first time I have grown peas and I am very impressed. I will be seed saving some of these pea's as they taste great and have grown very well in a pot. I have some others called Bijou. They are mange tout peas and I am equally as impressed with these plants to

limnanthes "poached egg plant" - After another blogger "Flighty" mentioned these plants. I thought I would try them. They are very quick at growing and produce very nice flowers. I will be growing these again next year as I find the flower very attractive.

Weather report - pleasant, sunny most of the day but not to hot, a bit of wind though - Wakefield, England

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Peas are coming on nicely and so are most things....

The peas are growing well, these are the bijou and champion of England varieties. I am very happy with them so far and they are now outside

The Jerusalem Artichoke is also growing very quickly, I have some more at my fathers and it is only just poking out of the ground where as these are away

This is the kiwi cutting I took, not looking great, it is sat in a pot that is sat in a tray with water in constantly. I will keep posting progress

 

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Pea's Germinated

Pea seeds planted a few days ago, Bijou and Champion of England have germinated. Very happy about that, as this will be my first attempt at growing pea's

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