Kitchen Garden

Happiness is… an allotment

How do you grow one particular named crop?

My sweet peas are my proudest achievement as they made up my beautiful pea teepee. I started the sweet peas off at home in March. First they were laid on damp kitchen towel and popped into a plastic bag to germinate; this worked so well and 100% of the seeds germinated. Then they were popped into toilet roll tubes to initially grow and transplanted out around

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