"Rod Craddock" wrote to wind "Bob Hobden" up :-)
Unfortunately we have recently given up growing tall main crop peas as,
due to the hot dry summers lately, they just give up before cropping. Now
only plant "earlies" both early and late. Always get some maggot attack,
even on the earlies towards the end of their season, but as it's just for
us we throw the "bad" ones away and always have plenty that have no
damage.


We're converting some of our plots to deep beds, and even on the only
partly converted ones we're getting excellent results - admittedly with a
limitless water supply which is sadly only available to a very lucky few
of us. Not bragging.........well only a bit ;~}}
These are our Alderman this year with runner beans in the background.
http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/rodsgarden/aldermana.jpg
http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/rodsgarden/aldermanb.jpg
http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/rodsgarden/aldermanc.jpg

oops.........just noticed you can see our onions on one of the pics - I'm
not proud of those, the later heat treated sets were much better though.


With the present summer temperatures and lack of rainfall here and only
watering cans to water everything there is no chance of us growing tall peas
like yours. To think we used to grow 3 or 4 varieties.
Onions like it though. :-)

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Regards
Bob
In Runnymede, 17 miles West of London