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EU gardeners seek lost cold-hardy winter pea variety

Original: # solarpunksunday # garten # jardin # gardening # garden # allotment Asking EU gardeners: 1/2 🧵 I’m looking for a specif

A European gardener is appealing to fellow growers across the EU for help tracking down a specific winter pea, Pisum sativum, hardy to at least -10C. The variety was once widely grown through fall and winter across Europe and formed part of the traditional European diet, but appears to have fallen out of cultivation. Gardeners in allotment and permaculture circles, sharing under solarpunk and gardening tags, are discussing heirloom and forgotten vegetable varieties.

Why now: Interest in heirloom, climate-resilient crops is growing among European gardening communities

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• # solarpunksunday # garten # jardin # gardening # garden # allotment Asking EU gardeners: 1/2 🧵 I’m looking for a specific winter pea, Pisum sativum that is cold hardy to at least -10C. It used to be grown throughout Europe during fall/winter and was part of European diet but… · jblue@mastodon.world · 25

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