Peas PLEASE

At this time of the year the Kitchen Garden at RHS Garden Harlow Carr is looking neat and tidy, ready for the beds to be planted up. Some seeds have been sown and early lettuces have been planted out from the heated greenhouse. Be aware that we could have a frost until the end of May, so don’t get too carried away – later sown crops do catch up! In the Kitchen Garden we covered the annual vegetable beds with horticultural fleece to get the soil to a suitable temperatures before sowing the seeds.

Peas

A hardy annual, belong to the legume family. There are many types, from standard shelling peas which are grown for the peas from the pods to the flat-podded type, such as mangetout and sugar snaps.