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?!
--
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South Devon
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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?

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subject line, or it will be automatically deleted
by a filter and not reach my inbox.

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.
--
Sacha
http://www.hillhousenursery.com
South Devon
Exotic plants, shrubs & perennials online

On 4/3/09 15:24, in article ,
"Aries" wrote:

On Wed, 04 Mar 2009 13:57:05 +0000, 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?!

When Tony and I were involved with advertising and cookery book photography
we often had to track foods down out of season and we found Harrods to be
very helpful at times. Worth a try anyway.

Harrods sell pea plants? I thought it was only expensive and exotic blooms.
;-)
--
Sacha
http://www.hillhousenursery.com
South Devon
Exotic plants, shrubs & perennials online

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.
--
Stewart Robert Hinsley

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. ;-)
--
Sacha
http://www.hillhousenursery.com
South Devon
Exotic plants, shrubs & perennials online

On 4/3/09 15:48, in article ,
"Aries" wrote:

On Wed, 04 Mar 2009 15:26:03 +0000, Sacha wrote:

Harrods sell pea plants? I thought it was only expensive and exotic blooms.
;-)

In 'my' day lol Harrods could advise or get almost anything for us in the
food line. Costa lotta but then the client paid

Thanks, Val. I'll pass that one on, too.
--
Sacha
http://www.hillhousenursery.com
South Devon
Exotic plants, shrubs & perennials online

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.
--
Stewart Robert Hinsley

The message
from Sacha contains these words:

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?!

Try Kenya.

--
Rusty
Growing old is mandatory; growing up is optional.
Direct reply to: horrid dot squeak snailything zetnet point co period uk

On 4/3/09 17:16, in article lid, "Stewart Robert
Hinsley" wrote:
snip

Is Thanet Earth operating? or still under construction?
Operating, I believe.
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.

I expect she'll have tried EP. I've suggested Thanet Earth but I've also
suggested the countries you mentioned, researchers and seedsmen themselves
who might be trialling crops.
--
Sacha
http://www.hillhousenursery.com
South Devon
Exotic plants, shrubs & perennials online

On 4/3/09 17:33, in article ,
"Rusty_Hinge" wrote:

The message
from Sacha contains these words:

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?!

Try Kenya.

I've suggested the countries Stewart mentioned, so I think she'll extend the
search if she has to. I don't know why producers want to include
impossibilities in their programmes! A few years ago some poor girl charged
into the nursery asking Ray if he could provide her with runner beans,
growing up canes for a scene they were shooting at a local railway station.
This was in March. He asked her when she wanted them for and she said
"tomorrow." !!
--
Sacha
http://www.hillhousenursery.com
South Devon
Exotic plants, shrubs & perennials online

The message
from Sacha contains these words:
On 4/3/09 17:33, in article ,
"Rusty_Hinge" wrote:
The message
from Sacha contains these words:

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?!

Try Kenya.

I've suggested the countries Stewart mentioned, so I think she'll extend the
search if she has to. I don't know why producers want to include
impossibilities in their programmes! A few years ago some poor girl charged
into the nursery asking Ray if he could provide her with runner beans,
growing up canes for a scene they were shooting at a local railway station.
This was in March. He asked her when she wanted them for and she said
"tomorrow." !!

Well, yes. I suppose that nowadays people are so used to going to the
grottymarket and buying all sorts of out-of-season produce that they
have no idea it's not grown in the fields down the road a bit.

We had a garden, and we kept chickens ( and I had dux -
http://www.users.zetnet.co.uk/hi-fi/dux.jpg ), apples, various veg
including runner beans, etc., and we had an allotment not far away, so I
had a very good idea what was harvested when, and from a very early age.

Yer bod these days may not even see a raw vegetable, may live on freezer
meals, pizzas, pies, fish and chips, fish fingers, chicken croquettes
and all that sort of junk, leaves school and goes to college, where
he/she may just continue in the same vein, and then takes a job...

He or she is lucky if Mr. Goodbody next door grows something other than
lawns and bedding plants, but generally, yer urban youngster has no idea
that beans grow - your specimen was lucky she knew they grew, and on
poles, at that...

--
Rusty
Growing old is mandatory; growing up is optional.
Direct reply to: horrid dot squeak snailything zetnet point co period uk

On 4/3/09 19:29, in article ,
"Rusty_Hinge" wrote:

snip

He or she is lucky if Mr. Goodbody next door grows something other than
lawns and bedding plants, but generally, yer urban youngster has no idea
that beans grow - your specimen was lucky she knew they grew, and on
poles, at that...

I think that may have been from watching the Titchfield Thunderbolt, or
whatever it was. You know - one of those fillums where Station Masters
always had runner beans and lovely flower beds outside the waiting rooms.
--
Sacha
http://www.hillhousenursery.com
South Devon
Exotic plants, shrubs & perennials online

In article , Martin
writes


Thanet Earth is tomatoes cucumbers and peppers. Just the boring tasteless stuff
normally imported from the Netherlands.


Birds Eye might know or even Tescos or another larger supermarket after
al they presumably have to source all round supplies?
--
Janet Tweedy
Dalmatian Telegraph
http://www.lancedal.demon.co.uk

On 7/3/09 01:25, in article , "Janet Tweedy"
wrote:

In article , Martin
writes


Thanet Earth is tomatoes cucumbers and peppers. Just the boring tasteless
stuff
normally imported from the Netherlands.


Birds Eye might know or even Tescos or another larger supermarket after
al they presumably have to source all round supplies?

I've had a very nice email back thanking me for my (your) efforts and saying
they're going to have to go the artificial route!
--
Sacha
http://www.hillhousenursery.com
South Devon
Exotic plants, shrubs & perennials online