A quick posy to take to a friend, all popped into a small jam jar for travelling in the car.
I also took a (re-used) bag of pea-shoots with a few nasturtium flowers
The pea shoots were grown from a cheap bag of Marrowfat Peas that I bought at least 3 years ago. I started by sowing them in rows (22. July), but I didn’t know if they would germinate so I also thickly scattered some
The peas all came up and have been fantastic. I have had loads to give away. Two of my grandchildren who are quite fussy eaters, especially where vegetables are concerned, just love to pick and eat as they go past. I take them little bags of pea shoots when I go to their house and they sit and munch their way through as if they are eating a bag of crisps!
I’m cheering on the inside.
Next year, I will scatter sow them but not quite so thickly.
Last week I pulled out a few plants and have sown a row of Wild Rocket, which is just beginning to peep through.
Joining Cathy at Rambling in the Garden, for In a Vase on Monday.
Ravelry
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Sometimes jam jars make the nicest vases! Your friends must have loved it! I’ve never had pea shoots before, but imagine they would be tasty.
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They taste just like peas fesh from the pods – mmmmmm – delicious!
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Lucky friend to get this pretty arrangement. The peas look great.
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They have been SO good. I eat them in salads and also in stir fries.
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Party Mix all the way around and pea shoots for snacks! Now I want to go plant some rocket!
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I’ve grown Rocket before, and love it, but Wild Rocket is perrenial, so I’m excited to see if it works in my waist high gardening trugs.
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Cool!
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That’s a lovely jam jar of flowers – I’m generally very fond of jam jars of flowers, just as a thing you know. And pea shoots 🙂
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I do know! and I like to take flowers in jam jars as a gift as I can put water in (just enough to cover the base of the stems, prop it up in the car and give it as a unit – the person receiving it does not have to scrabble around for a suitable vase and can enjoy it immediately. It works well.
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Love you jam jar posy. My two each much more greens wandering around garden than they do off a plate. I think it’s just more natural, part of our hunter gathering genes!
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I think you deserve a victory dance on the pea shoots! And I’m sure your friend enjoyed the jam jar of flowers – the flowers are a luscious combination.
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HaHa! Yes Kris! A victory dance – just the thing! I’m doing it now – Can you feel the ground shaking!! 🙂 😀
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I always found that my Granddaughters (I don’t have Grandsons) ate everything at my house that they never ate for their parents!! LOL! Oh the joys of Grandparenting!
I love the flowers- do they smell as pretty as they look?
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A couple of my daughter’s friends were like that when they were younger – they would eat food in my house that they would not eat at home.
I don’t think any of those flowers have a scent. 😦
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I love this arrangement! The inclusion of grass makes it feel like a slice of a wildflower meadow although we know better. So pretty. The grandchildren eating pea-shoots like crisps is, indeed, a victory! Congratulations.
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Thank you Peter. My garden IS a bit wild! Ha!
The children even cheered this morning “hurray! pea shoots” when I took them their little goodie bags. 😀
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Lovely wild looking posy! I always hate it when people say children don’t like vegetables, enough to encourage such behaviour. Mine ate everything when they were little.
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I agree,’ ignore the behaviour you don’t want to see more of’. My daughter chose a pretty restricted diet when she was little but I largely ignored it and it didn’t last long.
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I so agree. It was the only approach that seemed to work when they were teenagers!!
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Gosh yes!
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The simplest things are often the best.
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Yes indeed! 🙂
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Absolutely lovely! And yay for grandchildren eating peas as though they are crisps.
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These little victories feel so good! 😉
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We will take them where we can!
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Yes indeed 😉 😀
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