Allotment Gardening Advice Help Chat
Growing => Grow Your Own => Topic started by: GrowinGrowinGone on February 26, 2012, 22:24
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I am growing 2 types of pea this year, that I have not grown before. I have no idea how tall they will grow. The website I got them from also does not state how tall they grow. The past few years when I have tried to grow any type of pea, the birds eat them before I get any peas. So this year, I am going to grow them under frames, no matter how big the frame has to be. The 2 types are: Bijou' Giant Sugar Pea, and 'Golden Sweet' Yellow-Podded Mange-tout pea. I got them from Realseeds. Any info will be very much appreciated.
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mangetout usually grow4/5ft high, but if you really need to know - why don't you e-mail or phone Realseeds, they are very nice, helpful people ;)
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Thanks for the info mumofstig :) I can be pretty inpatient at times, I thought rather than email them and wait for a reply, I would see if anyone here knew the answers. I mean there is a vast wealth of knowledge amongst the people here who I am learning from all the time. :)
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Please let me know if you get a reply Growin as I'm growing them too (was just going to grow them in pots with 8ft canes). :)
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Will do, Auntiemogs. I am going to send them an email now. I will post back when I get a reply :)
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Ta hun. :)
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Hi, I've grown them both, (from realseeds) and yup, they are tall growing- About 5 ft tall.
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Thanks Spartacat. :)
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Hi, I've grown them both, (from realseeds) and yup, they are tall growing- About 5 ft tall.
Thanks for that, Spartacat :)
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You might want to consider putting netting over the pea crop against thieving birds, something similar to these pix:
http://chat.allotment-garden.org/index.php?topic=69457.60
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Thanks for the advice,Trillium :). That is why I wanted to know how tall they get, cos I am growing them in a frame, for that very reason :D
I am growing 2 types of pea this year, that I have not grown before. I have no idea how tall they will grow. The website I got them from also does not state how tall they grow. The past few years when I have tried to grow any type of pea, the birds eat them before I get any peas. So this year, I am going to grow them under frames, no matter how big the frame has to be. The 2 types are: Bijou' Giant Sugar Pea, and 'Golden Sweet' Yellow-Podded Mange-tout pea. I got them from Realseeds. Any info will be very much appreciated.
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Don't think that's the right link, Trill. Takes you to my diary where I say I've sowed some peas and the link within the link's been altered as well!
My general pea advice is here:
http://chat.allotment-garden.org/index.php?topic=50902.0
Just scale it up!
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Looks good what you did, I will give that a go. Looking at your first picture of the peas, that's about as far as mine have been getting before the birds have had them. I cannot understand why they like mine, other people grow them unprotected on our site and they do fine and the birds leave them alone. But mine seem to be a bird magnet. Thanks for the help DD :)
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Same here. The bloke on the next but one plot to me gets away with it. I have to net mine until they're no longer tasty shoots and again when the pods start to show.
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Same here. The bloke on the next but one plot to me gets away with it. I have to net mine until they're no longer tasty shoots and again when the pods start to show.
You do realise DD, that your plot is probably quite famous with birds by now.... they'll be coming for miles so they won't make the mistake of going to the plot nxt door. You're probably doing everyone else a favour by getting yourself five stars in the "Fine Dining for Birds Handbook"
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Auntiemogs, i can't find it now, but there was a blog where someone tried growing tall peas, i thinking goldensweet, in a pot up a tube of chicken wire, and it didn't work for them- They do grow quite densely so one side does get shaded out - all the peas insisted on growing towards towards the sunny side in a big tangled mess.... you'll have to be pretty insistent about tying them in, maybe rotating the pot a bit?
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Thanks Spartacat. Pot rotation it is then. :D
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I might try the same- the golden sweet flowers are so pretty. And even the peas are showstoppers. Very attractive plant.
My only complaint about golden sweet is that cooked en masse, they looked like they're overcooked mangetout because they go a weak lemony colour... but they're lovely blanched for a salad.
Bijou are just amaaazing. I had great fun winding up my plot neighbour with their monster size, he couldn't understand what i was doing differently to him to get mine so enormous :D
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:lol:
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I got a reply from Realseeds today, the confirmed what others had suggested.
"They grow to around 5 foot, possibly a little higher if your soil is
very fertile."
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I might try the same- the golden sweet flowers are so pretty. And even the peas are showstoppers. Very attractive plant.
My only complaint about golden sweet is that cooked en masse, they looked like they're overcooked mangetout because they go a weak lemony colour... but they're lovely blanched for a salad.
Bijou are just amaaazing. I had great fun winding up my plot neighbour with their monster size, he couldn't understand what i was doing differently to him to get mine so enormous :D
Sliced lengthways into strips, in salad, they are delicious :D
I'm growing some this year as the ones I had given to me to eat last year were so yummy :) :)
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Thanks Growin. :)
I was hoping to freeze some along with some sugarsnaps. Anyone tried this (& were they still tasty)? :tongue2: