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    Hi guys,

    We eat a lot of salads during the summer months (because our soild fuel raeburn gets switched up and I spend the whole summer cooking on a gas bbq and salad is quick and doesn't require boiling hence uses no gas) and I'm always try to vary them, otherwise we'd soon get bored.

    I currently use various mixtures from the following selection of leaves which includes various lettuces, land cress, rocket, young beetroot and carrot leaves, swiss chard, the lovely red basil GYO gave us and spinach. However, whilst thumbng tgrough my copy of Carol Cleins' 'Grow Your Own' book, I spotted a reference to using pea shoots in salads.

    So my questions today are:

    1) Can I use Mangetout shoots, seeings as they're a type of pea;
    2) If so exactly what part is classed as a shoot and at what stage can it be taken; and
    3) If I take a few shoots, from several plants once or twice a week, will this dramatically impair the plants ability to produce new shoots and, therefore, more mangtout?

    Many thanks
    Reet
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    I poke a few peas in with my salad mix , then just pinch the tops out when they look big enough to eat. Haven't used mangetout but I can't see why not . I haven't pinched the tops from the mangetout that are growing for their pods as I think it may slow down their developement.
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    • #3
      Originally posted by reetnproper View Post
      So my questions today are:

      1) Can I use Mangetout shoots, seeings as they're a type of pea;
      2) If so exactly what part is classed as a shoot and at what stage can it be taken; and
      3) If I take a few shoots, from several plants once or twice a week, will this dramatically impair the plants ability to produce new shoots and, therefore, more mangtout?

      Many thanks
      Reet
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      Hi Reet, I grow pea shoot for the same reasons as your on about growing them, I've used mangetout seed as well as pea seeds. I sow mine every 2 weeks over a 6 week span, so as to have a good supply. I let mine get to the 5/6 leaf stage then just nip the top 4 leaves and stalk out and mix with the rest of my salad leaves. It doesn't impair the rest of the pea plant, in fact it make's it more determined to grow...

      ...By the way, there vary tasty
      Hope this help's. xx
      Last edited by ginger ninger; 26-05-2010, 01:48 PM.

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      • #4
        They will definitely shoot again but I don't think you'll get a crop of mangetout from them afterwards until very late in the season. I'd grow peas especially for shoots, and a separate lot for eating peas.
        Last edited by Flummery; 26-05-2010, 02:58 PM.
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        • #5
          Originally posted by ginger ninger View Post
          ...By the way, there vary tasty

          ....and they taste just like peas.
          S*d the housework I have a lottie to dig
          a batch of jam is always an act of creation ..Christine Ferber

          You can't beat a bit of garden porn

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