We were promised the use of our friend's enormous trailer today. He'll take all our prunings, tree branches and scrubby trimmings. Great! We cleared a huge pile of elder ghat had been lying for over a year. It had been added to with last year's soft fruit prunings as well. It was moved to a spot ready to be pitched into the trailer when it came.
After lunch, we assembled 25 or more sets of Rootrainers. If you don't know these, they're the best thing for sowing peas and beans into. This afternoon was a flower day and tomorrow, and indeed part of Wednesday, so it's time to sow sweet peas. We won't do quite as many as last year's 1500, but we'll start with over 800.
These Rootrainer sets were filled with compost and watered ready for sowing tomorrow. They'll spend the night in the tunnel, so the compost won't be too cold when sowing starts.
The sweet peas seeds themselves are soaking in front of me. They'll swell overnight and will take less time to germinate. I'll post a couple of photos later.
Beltony Blue & Kent Blue Peas Germinated
Likewise Luang Prabang Mangetout Peas
The Rootrainers are interesting. They encourage very good root development through a process called air pruning. I'll explain this in a later addition. School tomorrow, so time for bed.
Incidentally, the expected trailer did arrive, but not until 6 or so in the evening.
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