"shazzbat" wrote in message
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"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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I know it's a bit late now for this year, but for future reference, you
have the ideal tool to avoid this happening again. It's called a computer.
I have made an excel document, and as a page of it has approximately the
same proportions as my allotment, I use the rows and cells to record what
I plant and sow where, print it out, take it to the allotment, write in
what I add/remove, and update it when I get home. Easy.

HTH

Steve
Sweet Peas are poisonous indeed- the plants are easily recognised with flat
ribs(?) along the sides of the growing stems. The sed pods are thin with
pointed ends. In any event you should be able to recognise the flowers
before they seed.
Ordinary peas develope an inedible parchment in the pods before the peas
have grown to any extent.
Pick a pod from uncertain peas and chew it. If it masticates down it is
mangetout, if it feels like cardboard or fibre glass, it is a standard pea.
mangetout fill out reasonably well if you leave them on the plant.
regards
David T