This weekend, I spent some time playing….not ‘pooh-sticks’, but ‘pea-sticks’. With many of my direct-sown peas pushing up through the soil, I can now see clearly where they are (and before their roots get much bigger), its easy to drive some of last year’s multi-branched prunings into the ground, in order to give pea tendrils something to cling onto.
The legume bed has slowly come to resemble a twiggy forest. I thoroughly enjoy the aesthetic as well as the practicality and, of course, it means none of our spent growth is going to waste. There is simply the dilemma of storing it all! (I’ll write another post on that topic in a month or so….by when I hope I’ll have had a chance to prune the espaliered fruit trees, part one of my seasonal ‘twig-gathering’ exercise).