Allotment Diary April 6th : Sowing / Planting Peas with mouse protection

This is just a quick video showing how I go about growing/planting/sowing peas out on the allotment vegetable plot. Unlike nearly all the gardening books which for some reason suggest sowing the peas 2 inches deep or even deeper I just draw out a simple trench about an inch deep. Then again unlike many books who suggest placing peas evenly spaced like the number 5 on a dice 2“ apart I just scatter the peas along the drill. The thinking behind this is that the shallower the drill the warmer the soil and the