Look at my Mange-tout!!

[CimaDirapa]

A combination of good rainy days and fairly warm weather in the Cotswold's caused everything to go in 5th gear. I am not for size usually more of a flavour bod but felt the need to use the trumpet for a change

[shirlthegirl43]

WOW You have to enter those in the show!

[Noodles]

Flippin heck - they're huge!

[Curvy Vixen]

Tell the truth CimaDirapa, is that a fun sized banana??

[hsthst]

tout tout

Tell the truth CimaDirapa, is that a fun sized banana??

What size would be classed as "fun-sized"?

[Nicos]

OMG!!!!!...and were they tender too?????..brill!!!!!

[CimaDirapa]

No just a regular banana, see in relation to my A5 diary beneath

They lovely, had them in the veg curry later on and actually more tender and sweet than the small ones from the shops.

Got them from the Real Seeds company, see below:

Bijou' Giant Sugar Pea (mange-tout) NEW

We're really excited about this. Years ago we were given just a few seed of an old pea called Bijou, which makes HUGE mange-tout pods. This sort of pea - real old fashioned Giant Sugar Peas - used to be very popular but are now almost completely extinct.

With the help of Seed Savers Exchange, we have manged to bring it back into circulation. Three years ago we started multiplying up the original handful of peas, and by the second harvest last year we had a kilo of seed. We had to do some careful reselection work as a few weren't the right type, but we did get it cleaned up and true to the original type in the end.

So last spring we sent this very precious kilo of 'foundation' seed - the only quantity of it in existence - off for trial production. All went well and in due course we received back one small sack of very precious seed after harvesting and drying.

Here it is then, after a 3 year project, this is our own reintroduction of a proper Giant Sugar Pea as used to be grown the 1880’s. It matches the original description and engravings perfectly, even down to the pattern on the seeds and the number of seeds per gram.

We hope you enjoy it! You eat the whole pod raw or cooked. They're sweet and tender - & so huge that just a few pods are enough for salad or supper.

Order PeBi - 100 seed £2.25

[Curvy Vixen]

What size would be classed as "fun-sized"?

Depends on how much fun you're looking for LOL!!!

Sorry, I'll get my hat and go now hee hee hee....

[purplekat]

I was going to ask if they were bijou ones - I grew those this year too and I had a few the same size. I've never grow normal mangetout before though so had nothing to compare them too