Growing peas - daft idea!

[Snoop Puss]

Brilliant. Lovely and green. My Douce Provence are finished, all white with fungus and drying in the heat. But we had a surprisingly large crop and plenty for seeds for next year.

[vixylix]

My peas have been a disaster this year - they were struggling anyway, and the heat has killed off the bottom halves of most them. Gutted - I love fresh peas

[Snoop Puss]

So are you doing this again this year, VC? Will you be bothering with Shiraz?

[veggiechicken]

I saved a lot of seeds from those peas and they're all mixed up together!! My plan (now that you've prompted me) is to sow them alongside a wire fence and let them get on with it.
As for Shiraz, they look pretty but I'm not impressed by purple peas - they seem a bit dry compared to green. Golden Sweet was good though and is on my "to grow" list.

[Snoop Puss]

And you didn't get any more problems than usual with fungal diseases spreading from the early pickers to the later ones?

[veggiechicken]

Don't remember a problem with it. The shortest peas got a bit lost and didn't mature any earlier than the middle height ones, so, from choice, I'd stick with the medium/tall ones.

[Snoop Puss]

Thanks. I'll be doing this this year.

[Penellype]

So are you doing this again this year, VC? Will you be bothering with Shiraz?

I tried Shiraz a couple of years ago and found they look beautiful and taste like sawdust, with a horrible dry texture. Perhaps foolishly, I'm trying another purple podded variety, Sugar Magnolia, at the allotment this year. This is a sugar snap pea rather than mangetout. Hopefully it will have more flavour than Shiraz.

[lottie dolly]

I got shiraz peas last year,but never got planted,will see how mine turn out this year ,thanks for the heads up.

[casejones]

this is better way to plant peas.
in 4 foot wide bed

north
tall in back
trellis
tall
main season bush
2st early bush
1st early bush
south

a triangle
short to tall south to north

[Jimny14]

I'm doing a similar thing with broad beans and climbing french beans this year. 6' supports with twine between on lower levels, thinking is the broad beans have been planted between the poles in staggered row and should come up in the near future all being well, and then later I'll plant climbers around the poles and let em climb on up. Should work I think, we'll find out soon enough.

[veggiechicken]

this is better way to plant peas.
in 4 foot wide bed

north
tall in back
trellis
tall
main season bush
2st early bush
1st early bush
south

a triangle
short to tall south to north

Do you have a photo please? I can't work out how you support the rows.

[It never rains..it pours]

Companion cropping is sometimes done commercially, have seen peas with spring oilseed which holds the peas up and they give it nitrogen, all harvested together and then separated in a dresser

[veggiechicken]

2019 - try this again?

The Beans thread reminded me of my Mangetout daft idea a couple of years ago.
Maybe time to try it again and with beans!