I'm still being a slack poster so here's a quick update. I planted a crop of dwarf peas and on advice from the seed packet, and some gardening books, I didn't give them any support. They were supposed have "sturdy, compact bushes. What I ended up with was a tangled, mildewy mess. Still, I did get a few meals out of them and today I dug them in along with some weeds and blood and bone so at least they'll make a good green manure for the tomatoes this spring. I also emptied all my old bean and pea packets into the bed which I'll allow to grow for about a month before digging them in too.
I haven't learned my lesson form last season and planted my Telphone Peas at the wrong time. While they are healthy, flowering and starting to set pods the flowers don't begin until a meter above the ground. This is a lot of wasted growth. I need to wait until early spring or get them in at the end of February so they can flower up the full height of the plants.
