How do I get nice peas?

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tode

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Re: How do I get nice peas?
« Reply #15 on: August 07, 2009, 13:57 »
I dunno.
Just have to buy b**** Kenyan peas from the supermarket I suppose.

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Re: How do I get nice peas?
« Reply #16 on: August 07, 2009, 14:43 »
Yes dd it must be pea and bean weevil as they love my broad beans as well.
I grow five good rows of peas every year and stagger the planting.
I usually have a row in the greenhouse and one outside hardening off and just keep going till they are all in.
Think id take DD advice as well tode or dig a load of compost and/or manure in to the planting row only and see how that went.

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Re: How do I get nice peas?
« Reply #17 on: August 07, 2009, 15:49 »
I still reckon it'd be worth chitting even if you're doing 200! 

That's 200 feet - not 200 plants!

omg thats a lot of peas.  How can you be bothered picking 'em all?  How bigs your freezer?!  :blink:

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Re: How do I get nice peas?
« Reply #18 on: August 07, 2009, 16:10 »
A tip I got many years ago was to draw out a wide furrow 6 inches wide and 2 inches deep. With the back of a spade firm down the base of the furrow, push the peas into the firm base, cover with loose soil, do not water until the plants show.

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Re: How do I get nice peas?
« Reply #19 on: August 07, 2009, 16:35 »
I still reckon it'd be worth chitting even if you're doing 200! 

That's 200 feet - not 200 plants!

omg thats a lot of peas.  How can you be bothered picking 'em all?  How bigs your freezer?!  :blink:


Freezer? They don't make it that far!
Did it really tell you to do THAT on the packet?


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