Peas flowering in November???

[mpdjulie]

I sowed some feltham first in my greenhouse on the 10th September.  I planted them out about a month later when they were about 4-6 inches tall.  They are now 1 ft to 1 ft and a half and some of them are flowering, is this normal?  I thought that they wouldn't flower until spring for late spring picking.
Can anyone let me know whether this is normal?

[mpdjulie]

[Obelixx]

It's because we've had such a warm autumn.  Round here the farmers have done their usual trick of planting mustard as a green manure or rape seed for an early crop next spring/summer.  It's all flowering already but won't have time to ripen the seeds so I suspect a lost harvest.

They're also still sowing winter wheat and barley - unusually late - and it's all germinating and growing apace.

[chriscross1966]

Witchcraft?.... You're not from Somerset or points further south and west are you (it's all cider and witchcraft down there apparently) :D....

Probably the pretty warm autumn we've had so far... plus September would have them growing without a stop at all, from memory you'd have ahda  month of pretty good conditions and average 12-hours of daylight a day.... hardly surprising they're flowering.... that said September would be considered one of the gaps in pea planting usually.... you're niot going to get a crop before winter sets in unless you're lucky but the plants will be really a bit on the big side to overwinter successfully....

[PurpleHeather]

If you had taken the peas to Australia and planted them there they would have just done a summer run.

They do not actually know the date, they just go dormant if it is cold and grow when it is warmer.

[mpdjulie]

I'm in Coventry - Midlands - I had sowed these seeds in the knowledge that they were for overwintering and not for a quick crop before winter.