edible peas and sweetpeas mixed??

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edible peas and sweetpeas mixed??
« on: February 15, 2011, 19:58 »
so I was going to plant sweetpeas and edible peas together on my allotment until i mentioned it to one of the old boys and he told me that I could make hybrid poisioned peas. :(

I only wanted the sweetpeas for the bees ( i wanted to be all organic and what not ) and I really don't believe that the sweetpeas and edible peas will cross polinate and make poision peas. but now im not so sure.  :blink:

Ive never grown them together before and the last thing I want to do is make everyone ill with my crazy evil hybrid pea soup come next year :ohmy: . Any advice would be greatly accepted.

LottieX
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Re: edible peas and sweetpeas mixed??
« Reply #1 on: February 15, 2011, 19:59 »
Peas self pollinate and it is very unlikely they will cross.
Did it really tell you to do THAT on the packet?

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Re: edible peas and sweetpeas mixed??
« Reply #2 on: February 15, 2011, 20:01 »

The way I understand it pea flowers fertilise themselves before  the flowers even open  :unsure:

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Re: edible peas and sweetpeas mixed??
« Reply #3 on: February 15, 2011, 20:05 »
You can get the odd fluke, (per Graden Organic Seed Guardian seed saving guide lines), but that right  99.9999999999999999999% of the time.


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