The sweet pea sourcebook

Charlie’s Angel

This year has been the year of the sweet pea at Malus Farm. I have committed to the creation of a seed bank of my favourite varieties and working towards us all having a supply of garden-adapted sweet pea seed.

What does garden-adapted mean? It means that the epigenetics of the seed have had a chance to learn how to thrive in a garden. It was such a shock to me that most of the sweet pea seed we get in the UK is a) grown in either New Zealand or Majorca and b) is all grown in polytunnels. In fact, almost all seed for things is grown in polytunnels and seed producers make an awful sort of face when they talk about ‘field-grown’ seed.

This does baffle me though. I want strong sweet peas. I want happy in the garden, resilient to the wind and the rain sweet peas. If the seed comes from plants that have been primped and pampered, I cannot believe that they will be happy to be thrown about in my flower field.

If this is a problem, then there is only one solution. I had to grow my own, select for the plants that thrived, and then send the seeds to you. (Only once mind. Then I expect you to be entirely self-sufficient in sweet pea seed…)

But until the glorious harvest, I have thousands and thousands of sweet pea flowers that I can photograph, but not cut. Hence the number of pictures in this ebook which are single flowers, moodily side lit.

I love them.

Gorgeous.

Click on the button to download your gorgeous ebook. This works best on a tablet or a laptop. I am working on having an option to print them too because I can feel my soul being drawn back to books…