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Doris_Pinks

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Purple Mange Touts
« on: February 13, 2007, 03:57:02 »
I am sure I have seen them on here somewhere, or were they purple podded peas?
Anyone out there know if they exist, and if they do where I can buy them,

Thanks
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Re: Purple Mange Touts
« Reply #2 on: February 13, 2007, 06:53:35 »
I've grown the purple (and yellow) podded mange tout. I've also got a few heritage seed library seeds in a recent swap just called "purple podded peas" - so there are definitely both, though whether they are that different I don't know yet...


Doris_Pinks

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Re: Purple Mange Touts
« Reply #3 on: February 13, 2007, 09:10:51 »
Thanks Sprout! You were up early too huh! ;D :D

CC thanks for that, I wasn't sure wether I was imagining it or not, now I know I wasn't! ;D
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Re: Purple Mange Touts
« Reply #4 on: February 13, 2007, 09:17:07 »
I grow the Heritage Purple Podded fron HDRA



which you can eat as Mangetout when very small, raw in salads. They loose a lot of colour even when stir fried... Not a true Mangetout because they soon develop that inedible parchment in the pod wall...
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Re: Purple Mange Touts
« Reply #5 on: February 13, 2007, 15:11:36 »
DP, If I still have some left, which the lovely Multiveg sent me a couple of years back, I will send them to you.  My lot weren't keen - wanted to know were the peas were - heathens!

 

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