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Picking peas, eating peas
We have watched our peas over the weeks getting larger and fatter. Today we picked peas, we popped them out of their pods, and then ate them at lunch time. We picked strawberries to have afterwards, they were warm and…
We love our summer time garden
The flamingo helps us keep the vegetables watered, early in the morning before the sun is fully up and it gets too hot. For lunch we can look for ripe strawberries and peas getting fat and ready to come out…
Early morning watering
Everyone arrived on a hot sunny morning, the first thing we did was to take turns watering the vegetables in the garden. They were very thirsty.
Pretty white flowers
Our pepper plants all have pretty white flowers on them. We sowed these way back in January and have been watching them grow on the window sill ever since.
Check the peas
We have started to see pea pods and every other day we check to see how big and fat the peas inside are getting.
From big seed to small bean plants
Remember back in early May, we sowed some big seeds, and they grew very quickly? Everyone was on holiday so I had to plant these out by myself, but together we can watch them grow and climb up the poles.
Pulling radish
We pulled and pulled and pulled….. it was not a giant turnip, this time it was a giant radish!
Large seeds, small seeds
Sowing more seeds today. We saw that some are really large and we pressed them into the soil, while others are so tiny we had to sprinkle them onto the seed bed. The sweetcorn seed looked all shrivelled up, we…
We Planted Out Some Peas
It seems like ages ago that we pressed pea seeds into the soil of the seed tray. They have grown into small pea plants ready to be put outside. We will watch them climb up the netting over the coming…
Watering our young seedlings
We have spent many mornings playing in the garden. Our young spinach seedlings were looking thirsty so we gave them a drink using the watering can. We can’t see any of the carrot seed that we sowed the other week…