Hi All,
I am going to grow some peas,but I want to eat the tips which I have nbeen told are fab . Has any body tried this before?, if there a specific variety go go for or will any seed be OK.
Any help from fellow growers would be great.
Thanks
Tracie
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Hi Tracie
Yes, they are great.
Have a look at this old thread
viewtopic.php?f=4&t=6338
I am now growing them 80 peas to a full seed tray - currently eating this year's second tray. For this I use dried marrowfat peas - £1 for half a kilo. Go for it girl!
I will certainly grow some as described in the old thread, and allow to go on and produce a crop of pods.
Yes, they are great.
Have a look at this old thread
viewtopic.php?f=4&t=6338
I am now growing them 80 peas to a full seed tray - currently eating this year's second tray. For this I use dried marrowfat peas - £1 for half a kilo. Go for it girl!
I will certainly grow some as described in the old thread, and allow to go on and produce a crop of pods.
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Pea shoots are really excellent when added to a salad..very fashionable with young trendy chefs as well !!!
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Here's a tray of peas I sowed according to my last post - though only about fifty to the tray (80 was far too crowded).
They were sown on 10 August and this picture was taken 29 August. Some will be harvested for salad tonight.
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Cool pic of your pea tips Alan.
Peas are great simply sprouted too Tracie, even quicker just two to three days and deliciously sweet and crunchy, you could do some sprouts while waiting for the tips.
Peas are great simply sprouted too Tracie, even quicker just two to three days and deliciously sweet and crunchy, you could do some sprouts while waiting for the tips.
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I'll have a go at this - were the peas just those sold in the supermarket Alan? Seems ideal for setting under my grow light through winter
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glallotments wrote:I'll have a go at this - were the peas just those sold in the supermarket Alan? Seems ideal for setting under my grow light through winter
Half kilo bag of Suma marrowfat peas (£1.09 from local healthfood shop). Any brand of decent dried peas should be fine.
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Hi Alan.
Like a few others, I've never heard of these before. A couple of questions, does one eat the tendrils too? And, thinking I might try this, how many trays should I sow?
Cheers...Freddy.
Like a few others, I've never heard of these before. A couple of questions, does one eat the tendrils too? And, thinking I might try this, how many trays should I sow?
Cheers...Freddy.
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freddy wrote:Hi Alan.
Like a few others, I've never heard of these before. A couple of questions, does one eat the tendrils too? And, thinking I might try this, how many trays should I sow?
Cheers...Freddy.
Hi Freddy
a) Yes
b) one to start with, then as many as you feel you can eat
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freddy wrote:Hi Alan, thanks for the reply.
Just another point. Do you actually leave them in their seed trays as they grow? If so, do you feed them?
Cheers...Freddy.
Hi Freddy again
The answers this time are a) yes and b) no.
The idea of the seedtray method is that you cut them at the height in my photo; any regrowth is a bonus cut.
For the other method which involves planting out and growing on for shoot cropping and a bonus crop of peas, have a look at my thread of three years ago (and note my failure from a very late sowing) - works well if peas sown in early spring.
viewtopic.php?f=4&t=6338
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