Fen Peas

Back from my travels, and how things have changed! All crops have moved on tremendously, and you can see by the photograph that they are begining to pod up. At this stage the Sleaford area will come pretty much all at once, followed by those on the Heath. Which is good. It is vital to maintain continuity of harvesting for both ourselves and our customers.

Last year was dreadful in terms of management due to the weather, and tested everyone. I hope that this year we have a much more consitent run with the harvest. The peas on the coast at Friskney have good flower on already, with little south of Boston, so fingers crossed north and south will not clash!

Prepartions are well underway with the machinery to get them ready for harvest, with little left to do. All the men will come over to Swineshead next week and familiarise themselves with the machines again, and then all we have to do is wait. The wet weather of the last ten days has put back the predicted harvest date, but I still anticipate this to be early 20s of June.