I sowed three varieties of peas a few weeks ago (purple podded, sugar snap and sugar snap zucillo (something like that, can't remember how to spell it!))
I'd like to put them out in the next couple of weeks as they are looking almost ready for it and I need the root trainers for something else!
They've been out during the day, but in the kitchen overnight. I'm in greater london and it's currently very warm here (25C today apparently!)
Do you think they'd be ok if I planted them out soon?
Loads of peas out on my site in London - you should be fine...
You'd be better off getting them out adn steeling yourself for a replant.... if they get potbound they'll be just as unhappy, wrinkled peas aren't too fragile, they just won't withstand the sort of minging February/early March that this country can have the way that the round ones will... All my maincrops will be going out this weekend (if not before) Hurst Greenshaft, Kelvedon Wonder and Telefono
chrisc
Mine have been out in Edinburgh for 2 weeks.
fantastic. Those are exactly the answers I wanted! :D
Put my seedlings out last week - 'Onward', the slugs ate em all, back to sowing more now.
I just direct sowed all of mine through March and April, under fleece, and they have all been fine. Now it has warmed up considerably, I uncovered them and they are grand. I've got no room for this potting on business!
I put maincrops out at the beginning of the month. They're perfectly happy.
I did direct sow of Feltham First about 6 weeks ago with no preotection. They are about 2 inches tall now. I also did 2 rows direct sow of Early Onward one week ago and they are poking through already. (North east England)3
Agree with the others, best off planted out. Mine, Cascadia and Alderman, have been planted out for a couple of weeks now and growing strongly.
Right. I've left them outside last night and they look ok so far. At least the slugs haven't found them yet! I'll plant them out at the weekend, after I've had time to prepare the soil.
Purple podded and sugar snap are fairly frost hardy though I would harden them off a bit if they have been inside. No experience of your other variety. Round podded peas very tough cookies. Sowed some of my under plastic bottles in Feb. I do not find them too much of an issue with slugs but mice and rabbits love them.
Our first direct sowing of round peas are now 6" high and the second row are germinating. All our wrinkled peas, for bulking up went out at the weekend.. :)
I do net or fleece the sowings though, as I do think they attract pests!! Once they are bigger, a few inches, they seem to be OK.
Quote from: antipodes on April 20, 2011, 09:42:23
I do net or fleece the sowings though, as I do think they attract pests!! Once they are bigger, a few inches, they seem to be OK.
That's why I sow them in the strip-modules.... you get four or five in a seed tray and each one represents a foot of planted row.... once they're about 4" tall they can go out.. You can do it in lengths of guttering but I don't ahve the knack of getting them out :D
Last of my maincrop first planting will go out tonight and then I'll start thinking about sowing some more at the end of April... the early dwarfs went out a couple of weeks ago...
chrisc
Happiness is ......................... seeing the first pea flowers of the year. Carruther's Purple pod are fully open, Amish Snap are in bud. :)
The Carruther's raced away as seedlings coming up fast and growing faster than any other. Seeds from Robert Brenchley- thank you.