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Produce => Edible Plants => Topic started by: Sparkly on August 14, 2009, 09:55:16

Title: Purple Podded Peas (Saddad)
Post by: Sparkly on August 14, 2009, 09:55:16
Just to let you know that they are doing great. I put them in late, but am now eating them as mangetout and they are lovely. Plants look very healthy with lots of lots of peas coming.

Thanks again

;D ;D ;D ;D
Title: Re: Purple Podded Peas (Saddad)
Post by: saddad on August 14, 2009, 10:35:37
Excellent... and they attract loads of attention on Open Days...  ;D
Title: Re: Purple Podded Peas (Saddad)
Post by: granny garden on August 14, 2009, 11:05:10
First time I have grown these. Excellent flavour & just a doddle to pick.
Title: Re: Purple Podded Peas (Saddad)
Post by: Robert_Brenchley on August 14, 2009, 17:45:25
Mine got hammered by the pigeons, but they're producing pods now. No peas yet. Salmon-Flowered got eaten as well, but they've recovered particularly well.
Title: Re: Purple Podded Peas (Saddad)
Post by: saddad on August 14, 2009, 20:08:11
My salmon were a bit of a wash out this year, and the Lancashire Lad even worse.. It can't be the rain, not if it grows in Lancashire...  :-X
Title: Re: Purple Podded Peas (Saddad)
Post by: Sparkly on August 14, 2009, 20:08:58
Which are the salmon-flowered ones?
Title: Re: Purple Podded Peas (Saddad)
Post by: saddad on August 14, 2009, 20:25:16
Another HSL pea... quite short about 4-5' for me... all the flowers together in bunches at the top...

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

Dried peas are a lovely fawn with red speckles...
Title: Re: Purple Podded Peas (Saddad)
Post by: Sparkly on August 14, 2009, 20:52:31
They look different, what is the yield like?
Title: Re: Purple Podded Peas (Saddad)
Post by: manicscousers on August 14, 2009, 20:55:45
we've got lots of pods on the ones we bought from you, saddad.. growing for seed this year :)
Title: Re: Purple Podded Peas (Saddad)
Post by: saddad on August 14, 2009, 21:36:33
Usually OK but not as good as our Purple podded...  :)
Title: Re: Purple Podded Peas (Saddad)
Post by: Robert_Brenchley on August 14, 2009, 22:39:48
I'm getting lots of small pods on the Salmon-Flowered. Lancashire Lad isn't doing so well for me either; I blame the pigeons. None of my other varieties is doing as much as I'd hoped either.
Title: Re: Purple Podded Peas (Saddad)
Post by: Sparkly on August 14, 2009, 22:52:47
I am going to try and save some of the purple ones.  ;D
Title: Re: Purple Podded Peas (Saddad)
Post by: Sparkly on August 29, 2009, 18:55:03
(http://www.allotments4all.co.uk/smf/gallery/4528_29_08_09_6_48_22.jpg)

Picked today!  ;D

The plants got a powdery mildew so I pulled them up and made a big harvest. Will have to try and save seeds next year, but got a reasonable crop.
Title: Re: Purple Podded Peas (Saddad)
Post by: saddad on August 29, 2009, 20:53:00
It's great when you get 9 in a pod isn't it...  :)
Title: Re: Purple Podded Peas (Saddad)
Post by: Sparkly on August 29, 2009, 21:31:29
Quote from: saddad on August 29, 2009, 20:53:00
It's great when you get 9 in a pod isn't it...  :)

Quite alot had 10!

:)

Title: Re: Purple Podded Peas (Saddad)
Post by: saddad on August 29, 2009, 21:40:10
 :o Don't think I've ever had ten in a Purple Podded...  :'(
Title: Re: Purple Podded Peas (Saddad)
Post by: Sparkly on August 29, 2009, 21:56:25
Ooo I must have done okay then. I have blanched and frozen them. They look a bit 'anaemic', but hopefully they will taste good!
Title: Re: Purple Podded Peas (Saddad)
Post by: saddad on August 29, 2009, 22:11:07
They are greyer than standard peas... good in cooking but a bit chewy for use like packet frozen peas as a side dish..  :)
Title: Re: Purple Podded Peas (Saddad)
Post by: Robert_Brenchley on August 30, 2009, 19:34:35
They're the old-fashioned peas used for pease pudding and the like. They're starchier and more filling than marrowfats, so they're ideal for anything savoury.
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