Colossal Climbing peas just arrived!

[RichardS]

got back yesterday to find a box on the doorstop from Victorian Nursery Centre, containing my packet of Colossal Climbing Peas and a couple of rhubarb plants...

Can't wait!   I'll probably plant them in some jiffy pots in the "greenhouse" just to get them going nice & early, and to stop the possibility of the seeds rotting in this cold, wet weather.

I prepared the runner bean bed with well rotted manure & a load of shredded paper & cardboard last year, so I think I'll only grow half a row of runners this year (had far too much from them last) and the peas on the other side of the row.

Any other tips/gotchas with these?  Will they happily climb up canes like runner beans?

[RichardS]

[Anne Robertson]

Also trying Colossal climbing peas for the first time, now an inch high in peat pots. (Ah it's just started snowing here! :o)
I thought Victorian Nursery Certre was quite pricey for those peas and while I was uhming and ahing whether to get them I found some at a local garden centre for £1.99  ;D

[MarthaMad]

Does the Victorian Nursery Centre have a website?

[Lillypad]

My seedlings are doing well too! I'm planing to grow them up canes, just like I do runner beans.

Web address = www.victoriana.ws

Lillypad

[RichardS]

Ani - yes, I thought they were rather expensive too.  Had to make the order up to a minimum £10 otherwise I would have also incurred a £4 minimum order surcharge, so I got some Victoria rhubarb as well, which was nice!

Unfortunately I had been unable to find climbing peas in any of my local garden centres.

However, it is a packet of 500 seeds, which is about double the norm, so the premium came to something like £1 for a standard sized packet. 

I'll be giving about half of them to my dad, so the double packet size isn't wasted in this case.