Meteor Peas .. when will these be ready, if I plant now ?

[wbmkk]

I have recently got my first ever allotment, so am still busy getting it cleared and dug over.

Yesterday I bought some broad bean seeds to put in now, just so i can say I something on its way. I assumed they would be finished before any real planting takes place next spring. I understand this is not quite the case.

The allotment association was also selling meteor peas, but I didn't bother ... I thought I'll see what they need first. I can easily buy them again in the next couple of days, if I decide to try them too

If I plant peas within the next few days, when will they be finished ?

After I dig over my whole plot and the two existing greenhouses are removed, which belong to another gardener (who still wants them) I intend doing a master plan, to see what I should put where. I thought I may as well get everything right at the start.

If the beans and peas are wrong, it'll not be the end of the world.

So, living in the NE of England, when will the peas and the beans be finished, if, say they go in this week.

thanks for any advice

[rustylady]

Both will probably crop in May next year.

[Paulieb]

Both will probably crop in May next year.

......which in theory should be early than your spring sown varieties.

Also if they come out in May, thats the busy time when you should have tons of stuff ready to go in, so should work out okay.

[Two_Sheds]

Both will probably crop in May next year.

and it should say that on the seed packet

[Penellype]

I grew some of these this year from a spring sowing, starting the plants off indoors in February and planting out in March. My first peas were ready in mid June, which is probably a little late due to the very cold spring. The packet says May onwards, to include the autumn sowing.

One word of warning - this variety is marketed as a dwarf pea, and therefore I put up fairly low netting for support, but the plants grew nearly as tall as Onward, which is not dwarf, and as a result some of them bent over making harvesting difficult. Give them a decent height of support. They are a very pleasant, sweet variety.