No show peas (Again)

[Mark_Riga]

This is how I've grown peas for the last about 10 years. Before that I used to sow directly outside but mice seem more a problem now (I have caught 5 in the past week in the attic - they seemed to be running around with boots on at night.)
About 80 to 100 in seed trays in a conservatory and plant out before the roots get too tangled (probably in about a week). They could go out now into a greenhouse - if it wasn't for the mice. The picture is a bit dark but think you can see how they are - about 50 sweetcorn also in a tray, a little early but hopefully will be OK. About 400 peas in 3.5 trays will plant out 12 to a foot in a triple row.
The variety is Hurst Greenshaft and hopefully will get 10lb of peas (including pods) per foot.

[It never rains..it pours]

The variety is Hurst Greenshaft and hopefully will get 10lb of peas (including pods) per foot.

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Is that your usual yield ? I was hoping for 10lb off my total 15ft of double rows

[chris_m]

This is how I've grown peas for the last about 10 years. Before that I used to sow directly outside but mice seem more a problem now (I have caught 5 in the past week in the attic - they seemed to be running around with boots on at night.)

You tried to grow peas in the attic?

They could go out now into a greenhouse - if it wasn't for the mice. The picture is a bit dark but think you can see how they are

Aren't the mice only a problem before the seeds germinate? Thought I'd read that they aren't so partial once the seeds have become little plants.

[Marb67]

Well here is an update:Brand new compost, sprouted in jar and all failed to come up. Some rotted. So there you go. Doing it by advice and still I cant grow.

[nickdub]

Well here is an update:Brand new compost, sprouted in jar and all failed to come up. Some rotted. So there you go. Doing it by advice and still I cant grow.

When you say "... sprouted in jar and all failed to come up ..." do you mean you chitted them successfully in a jar, then planted them out in compost, after which they rotted - or something-else ?

[lottie dolly]

are you giving them to much water,as that is the only reason i know off,that rots seed,if they sprouted then the seed itself is fine,unless you not knowingly knocked of the little shoots,GO ON have another go just for me please ,put to chit,and let them show a bit off seed leave,and root,before putting into compost/soil,that way you will find out if it is the seed,or you giving to much water,come on ladd,you can do it

[Marb67]

I chitted them for about 2 weeks which was very slow in the house. Normal sprouting seeds for eating take just a day or two. I then planted them in new compost, not watered but moist. All rotted. Some peas that have come up from my first sowings are pathetic, a couple ok.

[nickdub]

I chitted them for about 2 weeks which was very slow in the house. Normal sprouting seeds for eating take just a day or two. I then planted them in new compost, not watered but moist. All rotted. Some peas that have come up from my first sowings are pathetic, a couple ok.

Does seem very slow at the chitting stage - sorry if you've already answered it , but are you doing this in a jar with just water and seeds in it, or some other way ?

[It never rains..it pours]

Sounds like the seeds to me, your welcome to some of my seed but suspect maybe closer sources for you

[Runtpuppy]

I seem to remember reading somewhere that peas need cool temperatures to sprout. I'm no expert and may be wrong, but could the heating have affected the seeds adversely? I mean, maybe it was too warm for them, which is why they started rotting?

[Marb67]

No as the kitchen is cool despite a small radiator

[burnie]

I have peas sown all over the place this year, last year I had very sporadic germination and someone said maybe mice were eating them. So this year I have some in hanging baskets, some sown in root trainers in the blowaway inside the greenhouse and some sown direct outside in the raised beds. I have around 60 percent germination in the root trainers, at present zero percent outside and I reckon the Petit Pois are 100 percent in the hanging basket in the greenhouse, so some poor germination and those up in the sky are doing the best, not exactly scientific, but interesting just the same.

[Chippy Minton]

We sowed a couple of varieties of peas a couple of weeks ago outside, one was Kelvedon Wonder and the other was "Lurking Packet in the Seedbox" (I believe VC knows this variety). One variety is coming up great guns, the other, so far nothing, nada, ingenting. Could be the seeds, could be mice, could be the variety, could be impatience, only time will tell, but if nothing happens the other "lurkers" will get their chance. There's no accounting for seeds.....

[veggiechicken]

Chippy, was it the Kelvedon that germinated - or the lurkers?
I'm guessing the Kelvedons - can you tell us what the sow by date is on the packets?

[Chippy Minton]

Reckon you're right VC. I think the others are Douce Provence. No idea of dates, I have a habit of tearing the sow by date off when I open the packet

They've time yet..... But they need to get a shift on because they have to grow, mature and crop in time to be replaced by the Red Alert toms