Allotment Gardening Advice Help Chat
Growing => Grow Your Own => Topic started by: Optimistic Gardener on March 01, 2012, 13:48
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Hi DD
Just been mooching about in a garden centre and noticed that you can buy peas suitable for making mushy peas with - can't recall the variety name. I'm quite tempted to try these but only have a smallish space. What tips can you give me please?
Thanks in advance.
OG
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I found that mange toot peas left to full ripeness make good mushy peas, but it takes a lot of peas to produce a good portion to go with your fish and chips. If area is at a premium, I'd leave it up to the canners. :blush: Cheers, Tony.
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To be honest, I've no idea what variety they are, but you could do no worse than buy a pack of "Bigga" dried peas from the supermarket & sow those.
They have to be peas suitable for mushing, and probably a lot cheaper!
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Thanks for the replies...have I found a topic on peas that DD hasn't yet explored?!!! ;)
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Only because I'd sooner have them fresh.
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isnt it the purple podded ones that are used for muchy peas? - im thinking about sending for some seed! oooh i do love peas :lol:
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The seeds merchants seem to be stocking this marrowfat pea, if you don't fancy sowing the dried peas from the supermarket.
http://www.dtbrownseeds.co.uk/seeds-plants-gardening/19858/pea-mushy-maro
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A packet of "Bigga" peas is only 49p from Tesc-oh.
I feel an experiment coming on!
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Oh no, not more peas :lol:
Look what you've started now Optimistic Gardener ::)
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theres nothing wrong with peas, the more the merrier!
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I found that mange toot peas left to full ripeness make good mushy peas, but it takes a lot of peas to produce a good portion to go with your fish and chips. If area is at a premium, I'd leave it up to the canners. :blush: Cheers, Tony.
I do agree and you get two harvests from one lot of plants,we picked as much mange tout as we needed and then left plants to produce peas. :)
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A packet of "Bigga" peas is only 49p from Tesc-oh.
I feel an experiment coming on!
Go on --- you know you want to :D
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Guess what I've spent 49p on? :tongue2:
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DD have you tried to grow peas from supermarket peas?
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Have you actually followed this thread? :lol:
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Have you actually followed this thread? :lol:
:lol: :lol: :lol:
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yes i have DD, but you havent mentioned on whether they grew successfully, and how they grew compared to seeds bought that are intended to be grown? :)
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I'd have thought that this would imply that I haven't! :lol:
A packet of "Bigga" peas is only 49p from Tesc-oh.
I feel an experiment coming on!
Well actually, not true. One grew from a pea from my pea shooter in my grandfather's garden about 50 years ago, but I can't remember much about it's quality!
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I'd have thought that this would imply that I haven't! :lol:
A packet of "Bigga" peas is only 49p from Tesc-oh.
I feel an experiment coming on!
Well actually, not true. One grew from a pea from my pea shooter in my grandfather's garden about 50 years ago, but I can't remember much about it's quality!
The very first pea perhaps? :nowink:
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i thought that was refering to 'bigga' peas and not supermarket peas in general, and that why i asked whether you had grown supermarket peas before?
a simply yes or no reply would have been enough!
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I couldn't see any other supermarket peas, other than quick soak "Bigga" and tinned and frozen ones.
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what about these and the 'leo' ones are cheeper than the 'bigga' ones
http://groceries.asda.com/asda-estore/search/searchcontainer.jsp?trailSize=1&searchString=dried+peas&domainName=Products&headerVersion=v1&_requestid=213914
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Thank you for that, but it's not worth saving 9p if you got to burn over a gallon of petrol to get to your nearest Asda.
Our Tesco is about 1/2 a mile away and they were the only ones they'd got.
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fair enough! i just presumed since you'd grown lots of varieties of peas - that you might have tried growing the ones that are made for consumption!
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Marrowfat peas are the ones grown for mushy peas. Not sure whether that is the variety or just the type.
The peas are harvested when fully mature and dry. When soaked and cooked they loose all their colour and green colouring is added to turn them from beige to the bright green in the chippy.