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Produce => Edible Plants => Topic started by: superspud on May 07, 2010, 18:39:06

Title: two pea or not to pea
Post by: superspud on May 07, 2010, 18:39:06
Which pea should I try to grow. One or both.

I got some more today from poundland, I have greenshaft and early onward.

Shall I put some bamboo stakes into the ground, lay some pea and bean netting over it and then plant them under it ?
Title: Re: two pea or not to pea
Post by: Robert_Brenchley on May 07, 2010, 21:28:03
Plant both if you've got space, since you got both. Better to start them in pots. A dozen to a 3-inch pot is about right.
Title: Re: two pea or not to pea
Post by: superspud on May 07, 2010, 21:39:19
That many Robert !, ok, and do you put them in the ground that close too ?.
Title: Re: two pea or not to pea
Post by: Robert_Brenchley on May 08, 2010, 10:34:09
I use up to a dozen pots round a six-cane wigwam, depending on how many I have.
Title: Re: two pea or not to pea
Post by: carosanto on May 08, 2010, 11:02:47
Hi Spud

I grew Early Onward last year (and believe me it was wet here in the West) very very successfully.  In fact, I even overwintered some as an experiment under cloches throughout all that hard hard winter and 50% survived!  These are flowering right now so I should get some early ones.

It was a prolific cropper and I had loads for freezing.  A good do-er.

Caro
Title: Re: two pea or not to pea
Post by: Twoflower on May 08, 2010, 11:11:48
Quote from: carosanto on May 08, 2010, 11:02:47
Hi Spud

I grew Early Onward last year (and believe me it was wet here in the West) very very successfully.  In fact, I even overwintered some as an experiment under cloches throughout all that hard hard winter and 50% survived!  These are flowering right now so I should get some early ones.

It was a prolific cropper and I had loads for freezing.  A good do-er.

Caro


You get them as far as the kitchen? How do you manage that  ;D
Title: Re: two pea or not to pea
Post by: saddad on May 08, 2010, 12:13:43
Grow loads.... the only way to get them to the kitchen....  ;D
Title: Re: two pea or not to pea
Post by: superspud on May 08, 2010, 13:53:58
well I can't argue with all that advice, so I went to town again this morning and I got 2 more packs of these things........  ;D
Title: Re: two pea or not to pea
Post by: Robert_Brenchley on May 08, 2010, 18:38:11
There should be plenty of tall pea seed going at the end of the season, I'll have lots for one, all being well. You get a better crop than off the little short things.