Pea trial
Last post 31-07-2009 4:33 PM by richardpeeej. 121 replies.
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04/07/2009 12:47 PM
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- Susiq
- Northumberland
- 16 Feb 2008
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Mine have only started to bear fruit this week - just shows the difference between the great North/South divide!! The Sugar snaps are definately further on than the mange-tout. Sue1002 has intrigued me about the flower colours, so I'm off now to see if mine are all white or not! I too am also going to sow some more today, but I wonder if its too late in the season up here to get any good results? I can but try I guess.
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04/07/2009 01:53 PM
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- sue1002
- Ipswich, Suffolk
- 06 Sep 2005
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Another thing I've noticed with the pink flowered mangetout plant is that it is much taller than the others in the windowbox, maybe an odd pea got in the packet? It's just started to form pods so it will be interesting to see if they grow exactly like the others.
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04/07/2009 02:34 PM
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- BB
- Hereford
- 12 May 2009
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With regard to your OH not liking mangetout Sue 1002. Have you tried cutting them into smaller squares and cooking them along with carrots/sweetcorn/garden peas? That is how I trained my OH!! He is not very adventurous to say the least but he does now like them (without disguise)!
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04/07/2009 05:35 PM
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- Phot's-Moll
- The sunny South coast.
- 06 Jan 2007
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I like a few mangetout mixed into a salad, stir fry, or steamed with a selection of other veg but I'm not so keen on a large portion of them on their own.
Whether you think you can do a thing, or think you cannot, you are right.
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04/07/2009 06:07 PM
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- sue1002
- Ipswich, Suffolk
- 06 Sep 2005
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He doesn't like sweetcorn either BB, (too fussy if you ask me when it comes to a lot of veg), so more peas and sweetcorn just for me this year
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04/07/2009 10:28 PM
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- LisaH
- Sheffield
- 22 Apr 2009
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I have just started to get pods on my sugar snaps and flowers on the mange tout :) These peas seem to have attracted lots of caterpillars, a burrowing leaf miner type thing and the slugs love the sugar snaps 
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05/07/2009 01:10 PM
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- lindylou
- sheffield
- 28 Apr 2009
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As Phots-moll and Susiq are sowing more I'll give them another go too. In my ignorance I thought they would go on all summer! I have pods on the mangetout now,no caterpillars but some leafminer damage. The mangetout look very healthy unlike the sugarsnaps one of which is looking decidedly yellow and sick.
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10/07/2009 02:24 PM
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- sue1002
- Ipswich, Suffolk
- 06 Sep 2005
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Both the sugarsnaps and mangetout from the first sowings are now finished. The sugarsnaps from the second sowing in windowboxes are now being affected with the pea moth caterpillars and the mangetout seem to be unaffected. The pods from the pink flowered plant on the mangetout are longer and thinner (widthwise) than all the others but taste exactly the same.
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14/07/2009 06:40 PM
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- BB
- Hereford
- 12 May 2009
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I am still picking both varieties (I have just had mangetout with my dinner) although the suagrsnaps are almost over I think. I need the space for cauliflowers so will be pulling them out at the weekend. I have found that they weren't stringless but I have had quite a few meals from them. Not as many as the mangetout however which are prolific and I have found I prefer them when left on for a little longer so that they are about 4" long and you can see the shape of the peas within. Those peas really add to the overall flavour so that is how I am now picking them. Still have masses. Mangetout my favourites.
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15/07/2009 02:26 PM
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- Susiq
- Northumberland
- 16 Feb 2008
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Same for me - have had loads more of the mangetout and prefer them by far - both flavour and texture-wise. I'm loathe to pull them out yet as there still seems to be more on the way. I'm not sure if they will blanche well for freezing as they are so delicate?
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15/07/2009 02:45 PM
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- Littleacorn
- Banstead Surrey
- 22 Apr 2009
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I have tried for the first time this year, freezing Mange Tout - not the ones from the trial , I already had some in, and had a bit of a glut. I have tried to freeze them whole while still flat and also when the peas have developed a bit more and these I cut lenth ways , neither was very successful, and could not be eaten as a stand alone veg, I did add some to a Thai Curry which were just passable but I won't be freezing again.
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20/07/2009 02:13 PM
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- sue1002
- Ipswich, Suffolk
- 06 Sep 2005
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I was going to pull up the plants from the first sowings at the weekend until I noticed the mangetout have benefited from the recent wet weather - lots more flowers appearing and a few little pods so I'm glad I didn't pull them up when I thought they'd finished
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20/07/2009 03:29 PM
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- Susiq
- Northumberland
- 16 Feb 2008
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Yes, they do seem to just keep coming on and on! Not so with the sugar snaps tho'!
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30/07/2009 07:44 PM
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- sue1002
- Ipswich, Suffolk
- 06 Sep 2005
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All my peas are finished now and the results have been emailed through with a picture of the different coloured mangetout flower that I posted on the thread before. My favourite ones are the mangetout, they taste better than the others and were also less stringy. Another bonus was that we had more of a crop from them too. The ones in windowboxes suffered too much damage from slugs, snails and pea moth and only weighed in at 8 grams per plant that germinated of the sugarsnaps and 6 grams per plant for the mangetout. With the ones in raised beds we got 20 grams per plant that germinated on the sugarsnaps and 24 grams for the mangetout. The figures don't sound a lot per plant but there were plenty of both kinds to be eaten and given away.
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31/07/2009 12:49 AM
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I am not part of the seed trial as I didn't know anything about it when I joined the 'chats', but I am growing mangetout peas- I bought the packet from Asda. I have been picking them for about 2 or 3 weeks and still have some flowers and peas coming. Does anyone know how much longer they should last, what to do with the plants when they finish, and finally how I can save some pea seeds for next year (to save me buying any more)
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