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Post by littleminnie on Sept 4, 2010 18:47:51 GMT -5
I am just starting to form some ideas of which peas to grow next year. I am talking about english peas. I need tall peas so the gophers can't eat the pods. I would love PM resistance and high productivity. I just wanted to hear people's favorites.
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Post by raymondo on Sept 4, 2010 22:03:54 GMT -5
Onward and Telephone. Both produce large, sweet peas. Can't comment on their PM tolerance as I don't have that problem here at the time of year I grow peas.
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Post by robertb on Sept 5, 2010 11:14:40 GMT -5
Magnum Bonum, Alderman and Robinson for shelling peas. Kent Blue and Bijou for mangetout.
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Post by Joseph Lofthouse on Sept 5, 2010 20:59:13 GMT -5
I grow land-race peas... Some of this and some of that, saving the seed every year from whatever individual plants are growing well in my garden, and trying a few new varieties every year. Regards, Joseph  |
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Post by robertb on Sept 6, 2010 13:26:07 GMT -5
You've got quite a range of variation there; the top one looks like someof the earlier peas, the bottom like the improved Victorian varieties.
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Post by Joseph Lofthouse on Sept 6, 2010 22:08:22 GMT -5
You've got quite a range of variation there; the top one looks like some of the earlier peas, the bottom like the improved Victorian varieties. Good thing I love land races, cause I sure have a hard keeping track of which plant is which after I get the seed in the ground. My peas mature over about a three week period. The super big pods represent about 10% of the population. My 8 year old nephew sure loves finding the big pods. The pod has a lot of air in it though, so you don't get as much pea as the pod seemingly promises. |
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Post by robertb on Sept 8, 2010 4:15:15 GMT -5
That's what I've noticed with very long pods, but they do have more peas than the small ones.
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