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Pea trial

Last post 31-07-2009 4:33 PM by richardpeeej. 121 replies.

• 24/06/2009 03:24 PM	In reply to
  sue1002 Location: Ipswich, Suffolk Joined on: 06 Sep 2005 Posts: 5,200	Reply | Contact  I hope you do get a chance to try them Charlie. I haven't tried them stir fried BB, both lots are coming thick and fast now and I've been able to pick one or the other daily.  I had so many of the mangetout ready on Sunday that I gave some to OH's son to take back home with him. sue1002

• 26/06/2009 02:12 PM

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  sue1002 Location: Ipswich, Suffolk Joined on: 06 Sep 2005 Posts: 5,200

  Reply | Contact I'm still picking lots of both types of peas from the raised beds but it looks like the sugarsnaps are almost finished. There's a few small pods on the sugarsnaps that I sowed in the windowboxes on 28th April and should be ready to pick in a couple of days.  The mangetout in the windowboxes have been flowering for a couple of days and I've spotted an odd one in them.  One of the pea plants has a pink centre to the flower where all the other flowers are white, and there's also pink markings where the leaves join the stem. sue1002

• 28/06/2009 08:10 PM

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  BB Location: Hereford Joined on: 12 May 2009 Posts: 573

  Reply | Contact I love your pretty pink pea flower Sue 1002. I have checked all over mine and they are all a standard white!  I am now picking both varieties at a pace and loving them. My OH likes them too. We are curently having a medley of shelled garden peas with topped and tailed mangetout shelled broad beans and sugarsnaps sliced into matchstick sized pieces all steamed along with new potatoes also from the garden (Accent variety have been great). Yummy BB

• 29/06/2009 08:55 AM	In reply to
  lindylou Location: sheffield Joined on: 28 Apr 2009 Posts: 11	Reply | Contact I noticed pods on the sugarsnaps on Friday so I should be picking them at last but still have no flowers on the mangetout.Shows what a difference location makes I think but also I feel they would have been better in larger pots or open ground.Still I'm happy with what I've got.

• 29/06/2009 09:59 AM

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  sue1002 Location: Ipswich, Suffolk Joined on: 06 Sep 2005 Posts: 5,200

  Reply | Contact  It shouldn't be too much longer before you start getting the flowers on the mangetout lindylou and at least you can enjoy the sugarsnaps first very soon I was amazed to see the pink flower on one of the mangetout BB, and just wondered if anyone else had one the same colour.  My OH noticed it yesterday as he walked past and asked if they were sweet peas growing in that windowbox.  I told him it just happens to be one a bit different in colour to the rest and showed him the pods on the other mangetout peas nearby and said they were the same.  "Oh, it's one of them" was the reply I got as he walked off with his nose turned up and yes, you guessed it, he doesn't like peas that you eat the pods on. sue1002

• 29/06/2009 05:46 PM	In reply to
  BB Location: Hereford Joined on: 12 May 2009 Posts: 573	Reply | Contact It seems that the leaf cutter bee is alive and well and living somewhere near my mangetout. See photo. Apparently they should not damage the plants and are beneficial to the garden - pollinating flowers etc. BB

• 29/06/2009 07:12 PM	In reply to
  sue1002 Location: Ipswich, Suffolk Joined on: 06 Sep 2005 Posts: 5,200	Reply | Contact The leaf cutter bees only use the leaves BB so the rest of the plants will be safe.  They did the same with the leaves on my cherry tree last year and I never did find out where they nested (probably in the big pile of wood that's behind the shed) but it's good to know there will be plenty of bees around for pollinating other plants. sue1002

• 29/06/2009 08:57 PM	In reply to
  LisaH Location: Sheffield Joined on: 22 Apr 2009 Posts: 23	Reply | Contact You may remember that I forgot to label which variety was which:)  Now some of you have had peas I was wondering if you could tell the difference.  The container with what I think is the sugar snaps has shorter plants, smaller leaves and seems to have started flowering first - does this agree with what everyone else has found?

• 29/06/2009 09:20 PM	In reply to
  sue1002 Location: Ipswich, Suffolk Joined on: 06 Sep 2005 Posts: 5,200	Reply | Contact  Yes Lisa, the sugarsnaps are smaller all round than the mangetout and seemed to have flowered first for everyone.  Once the pods start forming,  the sugarsnaps look like pea pods and the mangetout are very flat. sue1002

• 30/06/2009 07:46 AM	In reply to
  Charlie Roberts Location: Newcastle Staffordshire Joined on: 10 Apr 2009 Posts: 19	Reply | Contact At last I have finally got to taste my peas. I had a few red toatoes and strawberries Francesca had these before she noticed I had a few of 'Her' peas.  As a self confesses choc-oholic I have to admit they were better than a galaxy bar any day, also I don't have to think I need to spend an hour at the gym burning off the calories. Charlie x.

• 02/07/2009 12:19 PM

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  BB Location: Hereford Joined on: 12 May 2009 Posts: 573

  Reply | Contact Glad you got to taste your peas Charlie Roberts they are delicious aren't they? Are yours finished now Sue 1002? Did you get many meals out of them (that is one of the questions on the questionaire). I am still picking both varieties and have had lots off. They have been successful after a tricky start with slugs/birds etc.,and I think we have been really lucky with the weather this spring - it has been warm with plenty of heavy showers to water them. Would definitely grow them again. BB

• 02/07/2009 06:05 PM

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  sue1002 Location: Ipswich, Suffolk Joined on: 06 Sep 2005 Posts: 5,200

  Reply | Contact I've still got a few flowers on the sugarsnaps in the raised bed BB so they're not completely over yet, and got lots more flowers on the mangetout.  The ones of both types in the windowboxes are flowering really well and it looks like I might get to pick the first of the sugarsnaps tomorrow from those. I've been weighing them as I've been picking them but haven't added up the totals yet. sue1002

• 02/07/2009 09:13 PM	In reply to
  Phot's-Moll Location: The sunny South coast. Joined on: 06 Jan 2007 Posts: 3,347	Reply | Contact  I've picked some! Only a very few and they're not very big (my fault as they've had hardly any water) but now they've started I expect I'll have more. Whether you think you can do a thing, or think you cannot, you are right.

• 04/07/2009 09:20 AM

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  lindylou Location: sheffield Joined on: 28 Apr 2009 Posts: 11

  Reply | Contact Mine were small too when I ate them 'cos I just couldn't wait any longer! I have flowers (white) on the mangetout from Tuesday so they shouldn't be long. Do you have to weigh them from each plant for the trial or can you just state how many meals from the whole bunch because I can't see how I'm going to remember how much from each plant.The sugarsnaps are I have to say divine and I will grow them again.

• 04/07/2009 12:39 PM	In reply to
  Phot's-Moll Location: The sunny South coast. Joined on: 06 Jan 2007 Posts: 3,347	Reply | Contact I suppose we just give as accurate info as we can. If you can work out roughly how many plants you have, or say how much of the pack of seeds you used that should help. I think I'm going to sow more this weekend. Whether you think you can do a thing, or think you cannot, you are right.