Back in the Wolds
You’ll see from the photographs that I’m on the Yorkshire Wolds which some refer to as “God’s Country”—it’s our prime pea growing area here in the UK. The reason being is that the soil is superbly adapted to growing vine peas in that it’s basically chalk subsoil or chalk substratta which means it’s free-draining in the wet times and retains mostuire in the dry times so the best of both worlds really…
But even this is struggling to cope with the extreme heat we’ve been getting at the momment
I’m just taking the opportunity while I’m up here to take a good look at some of the later crops. In particular, some of the trial varieties that we’ve got in petit pois and they look good so I’m quite encouraged by that…
Talk to you later
