Dirty Nails: All We Are Saying... Is Give Peas a Chance

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FAST-GROWING Feltham First is an ideal variety of pea to sow now in the greenhouse or on a window sill to secure an early summer picking during May and June.

The pale green dried peas rattle softly as Dirty Nails rolls them around in the palm of his hand. Discarding any showing signs of cracking or damage, he selects the biggest and cleanest for cultivation and nestles them snugly into 3 1/2in (9cm) pots of moist compost, to a depth of 1 1/2in (4cm).

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Dirty Nails: All We Are Saying... Is Give Peas a Chance

A flat-headed nail is usefully employed firstly to make a neat hole appropriately deep, and then for gently easing the seed down and tickling compost on to...

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