Peas and TLC

[davyw1]

Not a lot i am afraid

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[davyw1]

[Robert_Brenchley]

So they haven't come up, is that what you're saying? I had the same experience, and assumed at first it was mice. The second year I cloched them, and they all came up, so it had to be pigeons. These days I start them all in pots. Last year the pigeons still hammered the young pea shoots, this year they seem to be ignoring them.

[chriscross1966]

After losing sop many young broad bean plants earlier in the year to mice I've decided that all my "big seed legumes" will be pot started and not go into the ground until they're at least 6" tall, or I can net them and they've not got any bean left to tempt the mice......

In the kitchen and polytunnel ATM there 20 trays of 12/15-drop modules with approx 800 beans and peas in them.... they go out in the ground in 2 weeks time, some of them will have been repotted by then, some will go in straight from their module. (basically the things that are single-sown in 12-dropps should be OK to stay in them, the things that are multisown in 15's will need potting up to someting bigger.... that inculdes all the tall peas.

chrisc

[Robert_Brenchley]

That's very much my approach as well. I start as little as I can in the open ground.

[campanula]

yep, peas are a pain. wonder why we bother. one year, i replanted SIX times and each time, another swinish pest wiped them out. Now, I sow them directly in the ground and immediately cover tightly with fleece - which stays in place over the entire growing season. Looks ugly and involves faffing and you can only grow short peas - no alderman, show perfection, telephone or anysuch. No matter, Hurst Greenshaft are lovely, will support each other under the fleece and crop well....but even so, after all that, you get enough for a dinner or two. Still, must have them!

[davyw1]

Just showing the length i went to in planting them yesterday. Normally i set them away in guttering inside the tunnel but it was that old i had to rebuild it, its hard to have to rebuild and garden at the same time so i was behind.  Now it looks like they are going to get covered in polythene as the night temperature is going down to 1/2 deg