sugar snap pea and champion radish progress y pimientos de padrón!

Two weeks ago, I planted Sugar Snap Pea seeds from Seeds of Change.  They´ve since germinated and are doing well, in spite of the cold spell we´ve been having.

Sugar Snap Pea slideshow:



You can definitely tell that they´re related to the Snow Peas. 

My champion radishes are almost ready for harvest.  I thinned the row to 1" plant spacing two weeks ago.

Their leaves have really gotten big. I'd probably have started picking them already, but with the colder and cloudier weather we've had lately, I decided to give them a few extra days.

Champion radish:

Indoors, the pimientos de padrón flowers have been successfully pollinated!

Pimiento de padrón slideshow:



Just as with the tomatoes, the flowers first shriveled up, some falling off completely, before the peppers appeared. Of the six mature pimiento de padrón plants I have, two have flowers and peppers, and the rest have buds of varying size.  I think that the combined peppers of two plants should be more than sufficient for a pimiento de padrón tapa, so this harvest spacing should work out nicely. 

I´m really surprised how many buds each plant puts out ( > 10 ).  So far, they definitely seem more prolific than the average tomato plant, although I don´t know yet how many distinct harvests to expect over their lifetime.