HSL Peas

These are close ups of the 4 peas for the HSL trial, all taken on 15th June 

Firstly, Clarke's Beltony Blue

Hugh's Huge
Simpson's Special
Alderman

Moon Trail GE Harvest

On the 20th of June I dug up and weighed GE

Sown on Dec 21st

Harvested on June 20th

6 months in the soil

Weights prior to sowing:

9, 4, 7, 10, 6

weights at harvest

166, 256, 151, 197, 144

Overall increase in weight 2954%

Alot of bulking up compared to last month's harvest; interesting that the smallest clove in the whole trial [randomly picked from the 50 cloves in a bag], gave the highest final weight and fattest bulb thus far. 

15th June 2009 - lottie pics

Peas and beetroot, with an allgreen courgette on the corner
Peas with dwarf beans 
My onion bed
Sweetcorn with 2 winter squashes and a bit of piping that will be filled with sand and carrot seed very soon
Onions - autumn sown from sed

stuff flowering in and around the seed bed

B&Q alliums were going for a song, so I popped them in the corner - look nice against the self sown poppies

Poppies from a different angle, with some chives

Gooseberry Pax, looking good - should turn red hopefully

Potatoes - Kestrel - just enough to go in last night's curry

Gonna be needing this.

http://cookalmostanything.blogspot.com/2008/07/zucchini-falafel.html

HSL Pea Trial

Progress on the pea trial

These are the Clarke's Beltony Blue. [A]

These are Hugh's Huge [B]

These are Simpson's Special [C]

And these are Alderman [D]

All sown on 11 March

All emerged on 21 March apart from alderman which appeared 2 days later

All planted out on 7th March

These were taken on 29th May. 

Flowers developed on these dates:

A 21 May

B 28 May

C 2 June

D 28 May

First pods so far

A 2 June

B 3 June

Moon Trial GD and GY

I sowed GD on the correct day [Dec 2nd] and it should have ben harvested on June 2nd. 

However, because GY couldn't go in the ground on the correct day [Dec 5th], I could not compare the two, so I am leaving it in situ until the leaves die back, so as not to waste it and get a decent harvest from it. 

Moon Trial GX Harvest

On the 18th May I dug up and weighed GX

Sown on Nov 18th 

Harvested on May 18th 

6 months in the soil

Weights prior to sowing:

6, 7, 8, 6, 11

weights at harvest:

133, 90, 56, 71, 103

Overall increase in weight 1264%