You've been Christoed

Christo and his Mrs may have wrapped the Reichstag, a bridge in Paris and put up an artistic fence in California but they never wrapped a couple of rows of peas.

The weather has been so good lately, famous last words, that the peas sown this autumn have charged on so much that I felt compelled to put in some pea netting and, with an ear to the weather forecasts, decide to cover them with fleece as they are so far advanced. Last year the peas were hardly affected the cold weather, but they were closer to the ground and for some reason I think that offered them a bit more protection. Less to get nipped by frost and it seems more akin to hunkering down and letting the weather pass.

But this time they're up there and might need some protection, so with the help of my artistic- structural engineer we christoed the peas.

There was a strict colour codes for the pegs, like the Pompidou Centre in Paris, apart from that green peg at the end of course. There's always one isn't there.

The peas should be snug in these, cross fingers.

There is some more good stuff on shelters and winter gardening at Subsistence Pattern, along with a few links, and he should know as he's in Northern Idaho.

And it was -4C at the time of writing.