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I started picking my Onward maincrop peas in early July.  I had a tremendous crop, and was picking throughout the remainder of July and into August.  However, I picked the very last pods in the first week of this month, when the plants were beginning to look a bit tired and listless, with no signs of further production, and turned to the Cavalier.  I didn`t get around to removing the haulm, deciding to save it until I`d got a good binful of stuff ready to compost

A week or so later I noticed new bright green foliage appearing in the tops of the plants, so I gave them a good dosing with High Potash liquid fertilizer and repeated this a week later.  Now a full 1/3rd of the plants have fresh green crowns, with flowers and buds appearing in abundance, and every promise of several further pickings.

I wonder if the roots were starting to go dry...and as we've had some rain they have recovered enough for some new growth...

No.  I can guarantee that at no time did they go dry at the roots.  They were, if anything, rather pampered in the way of watering, and as I said they had already produced more than I usually get by the time they had finished, so this new flush is a genuine bonus.

I've had an unusually abundant crop of mangetout Sugar Ann. I just treated the plants as I normally do, but I think the hot weather that came after planting out has kept them flourishing. I kept them well watered, of course, but other than that, I think they've simply responded to favourable growing conditions.  :)

Unlike my potatoes and onions.  ::)

It's a year of contrasts, that's for sure.  ;D

Same here - I picked Kelvedon Wonder from mid-June to end July, left the dead haulms in till I had more time - went to clear them yesterday and had another meals worth of pods resprouted from the tops. Don't know why, but next year I'll certainly leave them again.