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Growth spurt!

Tuesday, April 6th, 2010

Wow, the hot weather really slammed us this week. March ended with unseasonably warm days in the upper 60s and lower 70s, then April showed up and WHAM! We hit 93 the first week.

This past week has definitely been beneficial for my sun-lovers, let me tell you. We went from this delicate-veined zucchini unfolding…

Baby zucchini sprout

…to this brawny, raucous crew in just seven days.

Zucchini seedlings

*tear* They grow up so fast!

But seriously though, it has been a whirlwind. Even the sugar snap peas, a cool-weather crop if ever there was one, has benefited from the influx of hot, sunny weather. They’ve been doing some serious chorophylling.

Sugar snap pea, 8 inches tall

This is the biggest, already at eight inches tall.

Pea tendrils

Is there ANYTHING more adorably curly and optimistic than pea tendrils?

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Two-week-old peas!

Wednesday, March 24th, 2010

Peas and trellisSo here are my two-week-old baby sugar snap peas. They’re only about three or four inches tall, but they’re growing really vigorously. Almost every day they unfold new pairs of leaves and those creeping curious tendrils.

Here’s a closeup:

Zoom-in on pea and trellis

You can see they’re next to a wicker and yarn structure, right? That’s a handmade trellis; I bought some cheap bamboo rods from the hardware store’s garden section, and used some extra yarn to bind them together.

Pretty nifty, huh? It’s easy!

Weaving the Eiffel Trellis

Just make sure to wrap it around each individual stake as you go. It stabilizes the tension and creates a nice structure for the peas to cling to.

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