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Stewart Robert Hinsley · 04-03-2009, 06:16 PM posted to uk.rec.gardening

In message , Sacha
writes
On 4/3/09 15:27, in article lid, "Stewart Robert
Hinsley" wrote:

In message , Sacha
writes
On 4/3/09 14:18, in article , "David
in Normandy" wrote:

Sacha wrote:
I've received an email from a tv researcher for a children's programme,
asking if we can point her at a source of fully grown pea plants with pods
on for early April! Anybody got any ideas?!

Australia?

That was pretty much our reaction.

Possibly Kenya. (April might be too late in the season to get them from
Australia.) Another possibility might be someone growing them under
glass to get an early crop (Egypt? Cyprus? Spain?) or a research group
growing them under artificial conditions so that they continue their
work all twelve months of the year.

That's a thought. Thanet Earth, perhaps! Thanks everyone, I'll pass this
on, except perhaps, the Night Garden. ;-)

Is Thanet Earth operating? or still under construction? Anyway, I would
have guessed that peas aren't valuable enough to be worth growing under
glass in the UK. I would have guessed that the Eden Project would be a
better, but not good, bet.
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Stewart Robert Hinsley