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Old 11-07-2006, 10:05 AM posted to uk.rec.gardening
Rupert \(W.Yorkshire\)
 
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Default Help please peas!


"Welsh Witch" wrote in message
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Here I am standing in the vegetable garden. I have lost tons of labels and
I have enormous brassica plants on one hand but my present problem is the
peas.
I know I planted both the mangetout type and the ordinary I think called
"early onward". Now there are peas everywhere including sweet peas I
grew on the cage. Is there any way of telling which are mange tout and
which are real peas. I can't imagine it would be poisonous were we to eat
the pods of ordinary peas(?) but I don;t want to deprive the family of the
other sort either. What a mess...I haven't done the vegetable garden
before as my responsibility, and the vegetables I choose to grow my
husband has never grown to give his advice!! He always grew conventional
veg, I've got lots of stir fry etc
I'd be very grateful of anyone can tell me which is which. Thanks W
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Sweet peas, the flowery smelly ones, have very small seed pods and are
poisonous.
Mangetout pods are quite flat and have smaller peas than the ordinary peas
which are quite fat and almost cylindrical.
You can eat the pods of both varieties.
Perhaps someone else can tell you how to distinguish the three just by the
leaf pattern/growth habit.