Hi Hilary,

Nice thought but this is Yorkshire and on a hillside at that! We get some pretty severe weather up here at the best of times and much worse than early summer conditions could ever produce. Never had peas turn white like this before even in the most severe conditions.


Chris

Thanks everyone for comments. To clarify for Colin. The peas are at different places on peoples allotments. The white effect varied according to the plants but it seemed to be the tops - in some cases down to halfway down the plant that was affected with the two broad bean plants it was just the top...

Sorry to pour cold water on some of your theories. There are 5 of us on our small yorkshire allotment. It seemed that overnight all of our pea plants turned white at the top across all allotments. We all use different sources of manure, we were all growing different varieties - I was growing several...