Mangetout

I know.

I finally have a flower on my bijou mangetout peas, not quite fully out but I can see the colour. I bet you're already eating yours Veggie!

Haven't eaten one yet but there are several ready to be picked. I took a photo for you but my phone has forgotten how to talk to the computer to prove it.

It's on strike in sympathy with me

       

.............and very nice they were, too.

I think I made the mistake of planting too many in one pot.

Having removed the gh bijou some time ago and like Veggie put them aside to set some seed, at what stage can I strip the pods off? Veggie mentioned elsewhere she's set them out on a windowsill, do they have to be dry on the plants first? I would really like to be shot of the scrabbly mess.

I bought some mangetout Golden Sweet from T&Ms £1 sale. Do you think its worth sowing them now? I'm going to perhaps give it a try if I can find room. Any one grown this variety?

PS I've read it takes 12-13 weeks for them to mature so is probably OK to sow now.

The Bijou pods develop bumps where the peas are; leave them on the plant and the pods will turn yellow and dry. Ideally, leave them on the plant until they're really crisp and rattle when you shake them!
I cut the pods off at that stage and bring them indoors where they can dry off completely, without the humidity of the GH.
The pods can be cracked open and I spread the peas out to harden off completely.
All of mine are out of the GH, but I have 2 more clusters in the garden, one is cropping (growing in a planter) the others, later sown, are in the ground.

My seed pods aren't yellow yet so I'll leave them for a bit more

What a difference, I am growing Oregon suger snap and I don't even have flowers yet let alone peapods