Easy Peasy

Oh my - fresh peas from the supermarket taste just great. But fresh peas - picked a few seconds ago from your back garden – well they just taste sublime. Tiny little green spheres bursting with the taste of summer. None have made it to the kitchen yet...

Yip-Pea!

Well, would you look at that! A yummy, deelish, hard to keep your mitts off, baby pea! This is our first year of growing peas, thinking about it I have no idea why we didn't grow them last year, I mean, they have to be one of THE best tastes of the summer. Nothing beats eating raw peas out of their pods.

We've gone for a dwarf variety and they're doing brilliantly. To be honest, we hadn't noticed the pods growing, we'd just been looking at the lovely white flowers. It took us a little by surprise but now, every day I pop out and check how they're doing. I absolutely cannot wait for the first peas ready to eat. They are SO not gonna make it as far as the kitchen!

Easy Peas

We've had our peas growing on the kitchen windowsill for the past couple of weeks and we thought we'd do a little time-lapse experiment on them – results above.

I admit, not the most exciting piece of time-lapse you'll ever see but I love the way you can see them reaching out for things to grab hold of. This was just over the space of an hour and amazing to see how much they actually move about.

Hopefully we'll do some more time-lapse in the garden – we'll have to think of some stuff we can video... any suggestions?