Mangetout problem

[Colin Miles]

My Oregon Sugar Pod Mangetout, normally so reliable, is producing very few blossoms or pods. The haulm is very healthy, indeed splendidly so and the neighbouring peas in the same row and planted at the same time is smothered with blossom and the pods are beginning to swell up. Anyone any ideas?

[Geoff]

No confidence in my answer but I think mangetout are generally a little softer than ordinary peas so perhaps it is a temperature effect. Having said that, my Sugar Snaps are flowering and setting normally, ate some yesterday.

[glallotments]

We had this problem with Carouby de Mausanne mangetouts last year which we put down to excessive dryness which can't be a problem this year. We are trying again but they are only growing slowly as are the garden peas!