A new pea

[Nature's Babe]

What do you get if you cross a yellow podded pea with a purple podded pea?

http://daughterofthesoil.blogspot.com/2 ... pdate.html

[alan refail]

Hi NB

I noticed the blog you linked to was dated Saturday, 5 July 2008.

It seems that in the next two years the red pea became more elusive

http://daughterofthesoil.blogspot.com/s ... ded%20peas

and no news of them from her this year.

[Nature's Babe]

Still a very interesting blog Alan, and new varieties can take many years to develop. First red pea at least shows it is a possibility.

[Elle's Garden]

Hi NB, was it you who grew a purple pea last year? If so, did you save the seed and grow more this year?

[Johnboy]

Hi Elle,
We grow a Purple podded Pea here and they are used as dry peas. I have strangely never tasted them fresh. These are a tall pea and grow in excess of 5 foot. There is no name for the pea and I was introduced to them as a drying pea so that is probably why I have not eaten them fresh. There are always masses of seeds so should you want a few to trial just say the word!
JB.

[Johnboy]

Hi NB,
An interesting blog I suppose but really to produce another Mangetout and taking crosses beyond F2 makes them unreliable as to breeding true.
There is quite a range of perfectly good Mangetout already on the market and probably this is why since 2008 very little is heard. Probably history already.
JB.

[Nature's Babe]

Elle, yes a green mange tout produced a purple sport,I planted the seeds and got some green and many purple, I haven't planted them again yet this year perhaps I should.
Johnboy thank you, that is very kind, if you have some spare purple pea seeds for drying I would like that. I am growing borlotti beans to dry this year, as a vegetarian, dried pulses are useful for the winter. If there is anything I have mentioned that you would like seeds of please ask.

[Johnboy]

Hi NB,
I do not quite understand what I read the other day that white dried beans have a higher nutritional value than if you were to eat them fresh.
I have no idea how they increase in nutritional value unless as dried there
is the same nutritional value but you get so many more to a 100 gram portion when they weigh lighter. What seems daft is that you have to reconstitute them before they become edible. Perhaps a case where statistics can give a false picture.
Certainly a few peas will come your way.
JB.

I do hope you understand what I means because having reread it I am not sure that I do!

[Nature's Babe]

I do get what you mean Jonboy, stats can be manipulated and I like your common sense approach. Thank you for that offer. I could swap you runner bean wisley majic or trail of tears beans, or tomatillos or cape gooseberries, achoka or any of the toms I am growing ( see the tomato thread.) As long as they all fruit lol!

[Johnboy]

Hi NB,
You will be delighted to know that the Purple Peas are always grown along organically lines, that is that there are no pesticides used in that part of the vegetable area. I haven't used a pesticide for over three years now anywhere near or on any productive land. I do use Herbicides but only on non-productive land and nowhere near the vegetable area. You have my word on that.
JB.