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Pea pods in April
I've received an email from a tv researcher for a children's programme,
asking if we can point her at a source of fully grown pea plants with pods on for early April! Anybody got any ideas?! -- Sacha http://www.hillhousenursery.com South Devon Exotic plants, shrubs & perennials online |
Pea pods in April
Sacha wrote:
I've received an email from a tv researcher for a children's programme, asking if we can point her at a source of fully grown pea plants with pods on for early April! Anybody got any ideas?! Australia? -- David in Normandy. To e-mail you must include the password FROG on the subject line, or it will be automatically deleted by a filter and not reach my inbox. |
Pea pods in April
On 4/3/09 14:18, in article , "David
in Normandy" wrote: Sacha wrote: I've received an email from a tv researcher for a children's programme, asking if we can point her at a source of fully grown pea plants with pods on for early April! Anybody got any ideas?! Australia? That was pretty much our reaction. -- Sacha http://www.hillhousenursery.com South Devon Exotic plants, shrubs & perennials online |
Pea pods in April
On 4/3/09 15:24, in article ,
"Aries" wrote: On Wed, 04 Mar 2009 13:57:05 +0000, Sacha wrote: I've received an email from a tv researcher for a children's programme, asking if we can point her at a source of fully grown pea plants with pods on for early April! Anybody got any ideas?! When Tony and I were involved with advertising and cookery book photography we often had to track foods down out of season and we found Harrods to be very helpful at times. Worth a try anyway. Harrods sell pea plants? I thought it was only expensive and exotic blooms. ;-) -- Sacha http://www.hillhousenursery.com South Devon Exotic plants, shrubs & perennials online |
Pea pods in April
In message , Sacha
writes On 4/3/09 14:18, in article , "David in Normandy" wrote: Sacha wrote: I've received an email from a tv researcher for a children's programme, asking if we can point her at a source of fully grown pea plants with pods on for early April! Anybody got any ideas?! Australia? That was pretty much our reaction. Possibly Kenya. (April might be too late in the season to get them from Australia.) Another possibility might be someone growing them under glass to get an early crop (Egypt? Cyprus? Spain?) or a research group growing them under artificial conditions so that they continue their work all twelve months of the year. -- Stewart Robert Hinsley |
Pea pods in April
On 4/3/09 15:48, in article ,
"Aries" wrote: On Wed, 04 Mar 2009 15:26:03 +0000, Sacha wrote: Harrods sell pea plants? I thought it was only expensive and exotic blooms. ;-) In 'my' day lol Harrods could advise or get almost anything for us in the food line. Costa lotta but then the client paid ;) Thanks, Val. I'll pass that one on, too. -- Sacha http://www.hillhousenursery.com South Devon Exotic plants, shrubs & perennials online |
Pea pods in April
In message , Sacha
writes On 4/3/09 15:27, in article lid, "Stewart Robert Hinsley" wrote: In message , Sacha writes On 4/3/09 14:18, in article , "David in Normandy" wrote: Sacha wrote: I've received an email from a tv researcher for a children's programme, asking if we can point her at a source of fully grown pea plants with pods on for early April! Anybody got any ideas?! Australia? That was pretty much our reaction. Possibly Kenya. (April might be too late in the season to get them from Australia.) Another possibility might be someone growing them under glass to get an early crop (Egypt? Cyprus? Spain?) or a research group growing them under artificial conditions so that they continue their work all twelve months of the year. That's a thought. Thanet Earth, perhaps! Thanks everyone, I'll pass this on, except perhaps, the Night Garden. ;-) Is Thanet Earth operating? or still under construction? Anyway, I would have guessed that peas aren't valuable enough to be worth growing under glass in the UK. I would have guessed that the Eden Project would be a better, but not good, bet. -- Stewart Robert Hinsley |
Pea pods in April
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from Sacha contains these words: I've received an email from a tv researcher for a children's programme, asking if we can point her at a source of fully grown pea plants with pods on for early April! Anybody got any ideas?! Try Kenya. -- Rusty Growing old is mandatory; growing up is optional. Direct reply to: horrid dot squeak snailything zetnet point co period uk |
Pea pods in April
On 4/3/09 17:16, in article lid, "Stewart Robert
Hinsley" wrote: snip Is Thanet Earth operating? or still under construction? Operating, I believe. Anyway, I would have guessed that peas aren't valuable enough to be worth growing under glass in the UK. I would have guessed that the Eden Project would be a better, but not good, bet. I expect she'll have tried EP. I've suggested Thanet Earth but I've also suggested the countries you mentioned, researchers and seedsmen themselves who might be trialling crops. -- Sacha http://www.hillhousenursery.com South Devon Exotic plants, shrubs & perennials online |
Pea pods in April
On 4/3/09 17:33, in article ,
"Rusty_Hinge" wrote: The message from Sacha contains these words: I've received an email from a tv researcher for a children's programme, asking if we can point her at a source of fully grown pea plants with pods on for early April! Anybody got any ideas?! Try Kenya. I've suggested the countries Stewart mentioned, so I think she'll extend the search if she has to. I don't know why producers want to include impossibilities in their programmes! A few years ago some poor girl charged into the nursery asking Ray if he could provide her with runner beans, growing up canes for a scene they were shooting at a local railway station. This was in March. He asked her when she wanted them for and she said "tomorrow." !! -- Sacha http://www.hillhousenursery.com South Devon Exotic plants, shrubs & perennials online |
Pea pods in April
The message
from Sacha contains these words: On 4/3/09 17:33, in article , "Rusty_Hinge" wrote: The message from Sacha contains these words: I've received an email from a tv researcher for a children's programme, asking if we can point her at a source of fully grown pea plants with pods on for early April! Anybody got any ideas?! Try Kenya. I've suggested the countries Stewart mentioned, so I think she'll extend the search if she has to. I don't know why producers want to include impossibilities in their programmes! A few years ago some poor girl charged into the nursery asking Ray if he could provide her with runner beans, growing up canes for a scene they were shooting at a local railway station. This was in March. He asked her when she wanted them for and she said "tomorrow." !! Well, yes. I suppose that nowadays people are so used to going to the grottymarket and buying all sorts of out-of-season produce that they have no idea it's not grown in the fields down the road a bit. We had a garden, and we kept chickens ( and I had dux - http://www.users.zetnet.co.uk/hi-fi/dux.jpg ), apples, various veg including runner beans, etc., and we had an allotment not far away, so I had a very good idea what was harvested when, and from a very early age. Yer bod these days may not even see a raw vegetable, may live on freezer meals, pizzas, pies, fish and chips, fish fingers, chicken croquettes and all that sort of junk, leaves school and goes to college, where he/she may just continue in the same vein, and then takes a job... He or she is lucky if Mr. Goodbody next door grows something other than lawns and bedding plants, but generally, yer urban youngster has no idea that beans grow - your specimen was lucky she knew they grew, and on poles, at that... -- Rusty Growing old is mandatory; growing up is optional. Direct reply to: horrid dot squeak snailything zetnet point co period uk |
Pea pods in April
On 4/3/09 19:29, in article ,
"Rusty_Hinge" wrote: snip He or she is lucky if Mr. Goodbody next door grows something other than lawns and bedding plants, but generally, yer urban youngster has no idea that beans grow - your specimen was lucky she knew they grew, and on poles, at that... I think that may have been from watching the Titchfield Thunderbolt, or whatever it was. You know - one of those fillums where Station Masters always had runner beans and lovely flower beds outside the waiting rooms. -- Sacha http://www.hillhousenursery.com South Devon Exotic plants, shrubs & perennials online |
Pea pods in April
In article , Martin
writes Thanet Earth is tomatoes cucumbers and peppers. Just the boring tasteless stuff normally imported from the Netherlands. Birds Eye might know or even Tescos or another larger supermarket after al they presumably have to source all round supplies? -- Janet Tweedy Dalmatian Telegraph http://www.lancedal.demon.co.uk |
Pea pods in April
On 7/3/09 01:25, in article , "Janet Tweedy"
wrote: In article , Martin writes Thanet Earth is tomatoes cucumbers and peppers. Just the boring tasteless stuff normally imported from the Netherlands. Birds Eye might know or even Tescos or another larger supermarket after al they presumably have to source all round supplies? I've had a very nice email back thanking me for my (your) efforts and saying they're going to have to go the artificial route! -- Sacha http://www.hillhousenursery.com South Devon Exotic plants, shrubs & perennials online |
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