Laowai

Here’s the saga of my pea plants this year.

I bought shelling pea seeds because I forgot to order snap pea seeds and that is what the store had.

They were growing really well.

I made one small harvest.

Shellng peas is fun.

Most of them weren’t big enough yet – I needed to wait.

But I was able to make a salad from my little container of lettuce.

Yum.

But back to the peas. We had two days of storms and their trellis fell down… twice. I was able to pick them up and hobble together a sturdier support. But now the vines are all wobbly and a bit wilted. I’m just hoping they will survive until they are nice and fat and I can harvest them all.

Note to self – make a much more stable trellis next year.

I have lots of wild strawberries growing around in various beds and I’ve seen a robin eating them. And I’m trying to grow poppies (below) for the first time.

Peony season is done but it was great.

I follow a woman gardener online and she walks around her garden and refers to all the plants as “she” So I’m going to start doing that too. It seems appropriate.

And now I’m waiting for my green beans to get big and also looking forward to lots of annual flowers blooming.