Pea varieties

[grenhouse]

Hello all,

bit of advice please if people wouldn't mind. I have kindly been given by a fellow grape Dwarf pea - hatif d'annonay, telephone pea and then have kelvedon wonder, meteor and reuzensuiker - mangetout. I was wondering if anoyone had any advice on which order I should plant in and when, I am certainly no expert on peas! I've grown early onward for last 2 years and bunged them all in at once, but wanted a more successional crop this year to give me peas throughout the summer.

Also has anyone used the hugh fearnley whitingstall method of sowing peas in a square so you can get inside? Easier than rows?

Thanks! help appreciated as always.

steve

[Jono]

Hi Steve.

I sow in rectangle shaped containers, if that's what you mean? Three or four rows of about 8 plants, close together. They hold themselves up, with some assistance from a few twigs.

[iGrowVeg]

I have started off my mange tout and dwarf peas under cloches 3 weeks ago so they are just coming through the soil now. In the past I have grown them together in the same plot as they grow at a similar speed.

Telephone Pea and Kelvedon wonder are the taller varieties so they will take longer to grow. so you could sow them all together but the taller ones wouldn't be ready until later (in theory) and you may be able to harvest the dwarf ones first so there's not a glut. Although peas and mange tout are freezable if you do.