Peas and goodwill.

I put my peas in far-too-small modules, and the sugar snap peas and asparagus peas took off like rockets. So Random took me out to Tescos to get plastic cups to be temporary pots (she also holed the bottoms for me, all 100 of them). My sugar snap peas especially are very vigorous and fertile. The sugar ann sugar snaps and the asparagus peas are all now sitting in cups, waiting to be big enough to go out. The mange tout, I discovered, have much smaller roots and might make it straight from module to pot, as will the sweet peas. I find myself not caring over much about the Kelvedon Wonders.

We also accidentally two redcurrant bushes (which will make great 'decoy' bushes for birds, distracting them from the blackcurrants), and a loganberry and a raspberry. The raspberry will be more or less there for visitors. They're going on the west wall, I think, which this year is the 'pea' bed.

I'm also reading up on permaculture. I'm not applying it this year, other than lots of interplanting, companion planting and growing things at different levels in the same space. That's more or me being lazy and not wanting to dig or spray though. If we're here long enough, I expect more and more will start creeping in. One thing I *am* doing is leaving weeds alone until they're where I want to put something else or eating my food plants. Well, except the lawn thistles. They have to go.

The lawn's not mine so that's staying, permaculturish or not, and anyway I like having an outdoor 'carpeted' room to go and sit in.