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Title: Purple Mange Touts
Post by: Doris_Pinks 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
DP

Title: Re: Purple Mange Touts
Post by: supersprout on February 13, 2007, 04:46:22

http://www.allotments4all.co.uk/joomla/component/option,com_smf/Itemid,91/topic,20880.0
:)

Title: Re: Purple Mange Touts
Post by: CityChick 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...

Title: Re: Purple Mange Touts
Post by: Doris_Pinks 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

Title: Re: Purple Mange Touts
Post by: saddad on February 13, 2007, 09:17:07

I grow the Heritage Purple Podded fron HDRA

(http://i39.photobucket.com/albums/e190/Plot52/purplepeas.jpg)

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...
:-\

Title: Re: Purple Mange Touts
Post by: Mrs Ava 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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