Peter Norris

  1. Climbing courgette not only climbs!

    Climbing courgette not only climbs!

    The Courgette Shooting Star was to be the first climbing yellow courgette, and was acquired because it had to be perfect for a small courgette bed where there was more space in height than there was in width. "Height 120 cm" was written...

  2. Rod beans are harvested

    Rod beans are harvested

    Today, bar beans could be harvested just 58 days (if I have spoken correctly) after the seeds were sown in root trainers. The variety is Fasold, which is more than suitable as a 2nd crop. This time they were sown 8.7. and transplanted...

  3. Parsley root in

    Parsley root in "beautiful" forms

    The attempt to finally be able to make long straight supermarket delicious parsley roots has today turned out to have fallen such a little la la out. I had otherwise done everything humanly possible for beauty. Choose a variety that was...

  4. The last salad of the season

    The last salad of the season

    The last salads of the season survived the first night frost of autumn, well helped by a few layers of non-woven fabric. If the weather behaves fairly normally (and I remember the non-woven fabric again if need be), the mist plants' 23...

  5. Lettuce, tomatoes and frost

    Lettuce, tomatoes and frost

    Eventually, one can obviously neither rely on banks nor on weather forecasts. Both DMI and Yr had "promised" that the local night temperature would not fall below 3-4 °, after which you get up at 06 to -1.7 ° at a height of...

  6. Autumn-sown peas

    Autumn-sown peas

    This time, something new needs to be tried to get the early peas. Usually sown directly in the manure bank in November, where the seeds can be quite long to germinate, but if successful, there are fresh peas to harvest from early June....