Mangetout

    Peas drying - they're small pods as they're all the odd ones that were left on the plants.

    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.

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.

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

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.

I now have flowers on my peas so hopefully will start cropping shortly

           

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.

The golden sweet mangetout sown on 20 June are just forming pods. Not long now for a taster. They're supposed to be sweet.

     

Bijou mangetout, outdoors, first pods, sown later than GoldenSweet which I've been picking for a couple of weeks. I still prefer Bijou.

   

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.

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?