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Post by flowerpower on May 8, 2008 7:31:38 GMT -5
"These diminutive peas are authentic French petit pois and are ever so sweet. Precoville are ready to use at miniature size, when the slim pods are just 3” to 4” long. Each pod contains six or seven tiny peas, less than half the size of regular shelling peas. Their buttery flavor and tenderness cannot be matched! Precoville plentifully produces petit pois on disease-resistant, 18” to 24” vines. These small, delicate vines need support. (OP.) 55-60 days." So I planted these at the time as both regular shelling peas and snow peas (edible pod). We had a light frost and most of the seedlings of the petit pois style died.  I know nothing about the area of France they originate from. Maybe they are not that cold hardy?I will replant, 'cause I just want my baby peas. lol Any advice from France? |
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Post by canadamike on May 8, 2008 10:10:28 GMT -5
Michelle, I have never seen petit pois that were not cold hardy, and by now, you are ok anyway, if not late a bit, I badly need some petits pois, I asked Alan to get me some Waverex cause the company does not deliver to Canada, but he is sooo busy.. where did you order them please? I needs lots, I am growing 3 dwarf corns, and would plant them with it. A fast answer would delight me...
The other Michel..
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Post by flowerpower on May 8, 2008 20:44:58 GMT -5
My name is not Michelle. lol But I got the seeds through John Scheeper's Kitchen Garden Seeds. They do ship to Canada. www.kitchengardenseeds.com/The other item I ordered from there were Nickel Baby Filet Bush Bean. I am not thrilled it is a bush style. What I was looking for was a very skinny green bean about 9 cm long. Are there any pole beans that are similar? |
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Post by grungy on May 8, 2008 21:22:36 GMT -5
Hi Flowerpower,
I think probably Lazy Housewife (a pole bean) might satisfy your desires.
Cheers,
Val/grungy
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Post by canadamike on May 9, 2008 22:10:31 GMT -5
Sorry my dear, little name booboo. I ordered some climbing ones from France yesterday, from 123 seeds. I am planning to plant them in my corn, as there is only bush petit pois in Nirth America, as far as I know....having said that, someone will come p with a company name I bet!  Anyway, I have been an active buyer for more than 20 years, from many companies, I have checked listings too and never saw one. So, at the very least, they are quite far from common. The varieties I ordered are LAVAGNA, the earliest they have, 450 seeds/100g or 3.75 ounces ROI DES CONSERVES, sadly translated by King of the can, wich had me laugh 'till I went outside for a badly needed leak... 600seeds/100g Now ask yourself: wich one did I by in the largest quantity...a clue...petits pois ( small peas for the french impaired)... I will grow them and make seeds available in the fall or winter, maybe earlier if somebody comes up to help me shell 15,000 pea and bean plants!!! I will also grow Waverex if Alan get them to me early enough, big hint here for our Indiana Jones of the seed world , as I will use edible leguminous to plant in freshly broken land...vetch can wait...so can buckweat... Alan is supposed to send me 4 other peas, I still don't know if theu are dwarf or climbing... I also got ARES, an early and very cold resistant ( or so they say ) chick pea. I could not resist, I love chicks and love peas....even as a gay frenchman ( since we all are gays according to a certain soapbox thread started by a former rock musician that never made it to the big leagues  , our gain, mind you...  ) Anyway...woman are great to talk to about fashion, furniture, decoration, cooking, hors d'oeuvres and canapés and the bad dressers of the showbizz world... all things that absolutely fascinates me once my day of rototilling, planting, weeding, spraying, fertilising, de-buging, re-seeding, building,harvesting, washing, dressing, delivering or boiling,shelling, peeling, coring, dehydrating , bagging,freezing and canning is over... Oh! I forgot -snif snif- smelling , and then bathing...at last... |
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Post by flowerpower on May 10, 2008 6:19:40 GMT -5
So, basically, France is hording all the skinny green pole beans? lol |
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Post by raymondo on May 11, 2008 2:09:10 GMT -5
I've only seen dwarf type filet ebans, like Fin de Bagnols and Oxinel. I didn't realise there were pole filets.
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Post by canadamike on May 11, 2008 6:09:02 GMT -5
We are talking petit pois here, smaller (very) when mature green peas or PISUM SATIVUM, not green beans, Psychologically, I am barred to grow as much green beans, filet or not, as I will petit peas... First of all, I have never ''bean'' really crazy about green beans, I always got tired of them really, really, really, very fast, then, in 1985, A log home company I was representing sent me to Paris for 16 days, I discovered gastronomy and ate like a king...but for 16 days, despite never eating once in the same restaurant, THE ONLY VEGETABLE I WAS SERVED AT EVERY MEAL WAS FILET GREEN BEANS. I ended up ''bean'' traumatised: for the next 10 years, I could not even look at them. I then got maried to a former vegetarian nevertheless lovely who is not fond of red meat, probably the reason why she cooks a mean steak. By that I mean that once she has exercised her cooking talent on it, it is so overcooked (over boiled,really, at to low a temperature so as to not make fumes, she hates the smell) that if you test it on a dog, he will come running for the appetizing morcel, chew on it, spit it out in disgust and retrieve to his quarters with its tail between its legs, looking at you with the sadly painful and surprised eyes of a chihuahua being sodomised by an elephant... So she cooks chicken breast with rice and her favorite green beans, whole chicken with rice and her favorite green beans, rice with chicken drumsticks and her favorite greens beans, when it's not chicken fried rice and her favorite green beans... So I am now officially the cook, and most of the time I '' sorry Vivian I forgot to cook the beans would you have some peas'' her. So, Ray, please be nice to me and let's make it the last time you insinuate that I grow acres of green beans OK? ;D I still consider you a friend for the moment, let's leave it at that Petits pois forever, Michel |
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Post by flowerpower on May 12, 2008 3:55:49 GMT -5
The other item I ordered from there were Nickel Baby Filet Bush Bean. I am not thrilled it is a bush style. What I was looking for was a very skinny green bean about 9 cm long. Are there any pole beans that are similar? I want green beans to steam whole and slather butter on.  MMMM. But all the varieties seem to be bush. I hate picking beans off a bush. So normally I just pick Kentucky Pole (or whatever) very small. |
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Post by canadamike on May 12, 2008 5:25:28 GMT -5
Flower, Kitchen garden seed ( John Scheerers...) DON'T ship to Canada....Thanks for the tip any way, I will check here for a fillet look alike for you..I sure would try a small romano/flat italian bean at that young stage...
And oh! I love green beans too when they are seasonned ''à la francaise'' which is funny, 'cause despite the name , nowhere in Paris I ever had them other than plain and steamed and lined up like a log pile
Will look them up and try to find some for you. at least of smaller mature size...
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Post by flowerpower on May 12, 2008 20:54:21 GMT -5
Thanks, Mike! |
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Post by flowerpower on Jul 7, 2008 5:23:42 GMT -5
Michel, John Scheerers will ship to Canada if you do it by mail. Their website cannot handle foreign credit card orders. But I will be ordering from them again next yr. I am impressed by the petit pois. VERY sugary. MMMM Its a nice strain they have. I have to plant more for the fall. My Little Marvel did awesome this yr. Tons of peas, nice taste raw.
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Anyway, I have been an active buyer for more than 20 years, from many companies, I have checked listings too and never saw one. So, at the very least, they are quite far from common.
, our gain, mind you... 
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MMMM. But all the varieties seem to be bush. I hate picking beans off a bush. So normally I just pick Kentucky Pole (or whatever) very small.