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Post by robertb on Jul 2, 2012 12:30:18 GMT -5
The overall size of the plant is related to the internode distance. WDwarf peas used to be grown as earlies, so I suspect the answer to your question is yes. If I'm wrong, it would be intering to know why.
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Post by ottawagardener on Jul 3, 2012 8:39:58 GMT -5
How are my peas doing:
Yellow podded: Does take high heat and drought well as advertised or at least this year it is really thriving.
Blonde - didn't even know I had planted this variety: Delicious, doing well
Petite Pois - high producer in poor, sandy soil during hot, dry spring and early summer
Lincoln dwarf and Green Arrow: Not bad, but was heavily competing with weeds
Purple podded soup - Doing well though some early leaf yellowing
Spring blush: lowish yields
Arbogast: middling yields this year
Joseph's landrace: Mostly suffering in my poorest soil. We'll see who wins the genetic race.
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Post by ottawagardener on Jul 3, 2012 8:41:24 GMT -5
Littleminnie: Good point about coloured pods. Useful in picking at high speed, high quantity in crowded vines.
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Post by littleminnie on Jul 3, 2012 16:59:06 GMT -5
My peas are still going pretty good despite the heat. It may have been the deer nibbling that set them back a couple weeks ago.
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Post by ottawagardener on Jul 3, 2012 17:58:45 GMT -5
Hmm... maybe I should try pruning  |
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Post by edwin on Jul 3, 2012 19:10:27 GMT -5
We do have a deer we could loan you.
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Post by littleminnie on Jul 4, 2012 20:22:12 GMT -5
No I meant the slow down may have been from deer not heat. I was trying to count days and see what led to that slowdown a couple weeks ago. Now I am getting a few pecks every other day. Deer haven't been around lately.
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Post by Joseph Lofthouse on Jul 5, 2012 14:00:10 GMT -5
It was a good week for peas for me... I planted three crops this spring, spaced for an extended harvest. Two of the crops were ready at the same time this week due to the hot weather. I had meant to take a photo, but peas were flying out the gate at about the same rate as I was picking, so I only got a photo of about half of them:  I harvested the [Earliest Pea X Winter Pea] seeds. And also the pods from the plants that had crosses on them but for which the tags fell off the peas. Also harvesting seed from the earliest pea. I still have some [Earliest X yellow snow] and [Earliest X purple snap] to harvest. I sure like how the green arrow peas grew this year. They would have been very nice for freezing as the whole crop was harvested at once. |
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Post by littleminnie on Jul 5, 2012 22:39:24 GMT -5
The only thing worse than picking peas is weeding peas.  |
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Post by Joseph Lofthouse on Jul 5, 2012 23:38:55 GMT -5
The only thing worse than picking peas is weeding peas. I think peas are one of the easiest things to weed. I plant the first crop the day after the snow melts into fall tilled soil. I plant seeds about 3" apart in rows 18" apart. They grow quickly: dominating and strangling weeds. Especially that first planting when it's too cold for most things to grow. But even later plantings, I typically just run a hoe along each side of the row, one time when the peas are about 3" tall, and pea weeding is done for that crop. Don't get me started on weeding carrots!!! |
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Post by mayz on Jul 6, 2012 1:52:06 GMT -5
I harvest my improved Surgevil since the end of june Attachments:
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Post by raymondo on Jul 6, 2012 2:28:07 GMT -5
Looks like a bumper crop mayz.
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Post by mayz on Jul 6, 2012 7:12:55 GMT -5
the belgian weather is perfect for the peas
a good yield is 18 pounds (8kg) of shelled peas per 100 square feet (10 square meters)
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Post by wolfcub on Jul 6, 2012 9:36:45 GMT -5
Nice crop of peas Mayz.
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Post by robertb on Jul 6, 2012 11:34:30 GMT -5
I plant peas through two or three inches of mulch, and don't weed them at all.
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