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RE: Mangetout - Veggie - 17-06-2021
[attachment=3141] Peas drying - they're small pods as they're all the odd ones that were left on the plants.
[attachment=3140] Empty pods and contents.
Spec, these peas were grown in the GH for an early crop. I ate some and kept the rest for seed rather than buy more for next year.
RE: Mangetout - JJB - 18-06-2021
(17-06-2021, 08:23 PM)Spec Wrote: What a difference, I am growing Oregon suger snap and I don't even have flowers yet let alone peapods
I fear it's the North/South divide yet again Spec.
RE: Mangetout - Spec - 18-06-2021
Have you been doing it that way for a few years Veggie, the reason for asking is that I have always read that you should use your best quality produce for seed saving, possibly like using a pea pod containing six or seven peas, but if you have saved your seeds in that manner in the past and still had a good crop, that blows that idea out the water
RE: Mangetout - Veggie - 18-06-2021
In my "book" it says a pea is a pea - as long as it grows and produces another pea, its OK.
The idea of mangetout is that you eat them before they form peas, so how many peas there are in a pod makes no difference - not to me anyway.
RE: Mangetout - Spec - 19-06-2021
I now have flowers on my peas so hopefully will start cropping shortly
RE: Mangetout - Veggie - 27-06-2021
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May I introduce Jessy, a dwarf sugarsnap pea from Real Seeds.
Jessy is growing in a tub alongside her cousin, Bijou, who is twice as tall as little Jessy. She is small, sweet and round, the complete opposite of big, skinny Bijou.
RE: Mangetout - JJB - 09-08-2021
The golden sweet mangetout sown on 20 June are just forming pods. Not long now for a taster. They're supposed to be sweet.
RE: Mangetout - Veggie - 14-06-2022
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Bijou mangetout, outdoors, first pods, sown later than GoldenSweet which I've been picking for a couple of weeks. I still prefer Bijou.
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RE: Mangetout - JJB - 15-06-2022
I didn't grow Golden Sweet this year, sticking to Bijou and Oregon Sugar Pod. OSP was in a tub and sown earlier and isn't as tall as Bijou so a bit easier to manage. That said, the tub got neglected and the crop is almost over but the pods are quite sweet which I like. I've sown a second time outside up nets at the same time as a second sowing of Bijou, we'll see who wins the race.
RE: Mangetout - JJB - 23-06-2022
Is it normal for my Bijou MT, which are now say 5ft tall to be yellowing at the base or should I be feeding/ looking for disease?