I have planted various edible peas and rather dimly also planted mixed
in with them sweet peas. I belive sweet peas are slightly toxic. How
can i identify which are which? I would like to eat the edible peas!

Thanks

On Jun 24, 8:11*pm, Xenia wrote:
I have planted various edible peas and rather dimly also planted mixed
in with them sweet peas. *I belive sweet peas are slightly toxic. *How
can i identify which are which? *I would like to eat the edible peas!

This is nature's way of removing dozy gardeners from the gene pool.
'Bye.

moghouse wrote:
On Jun 24, 8:11 pm, Xenia wrote:
I have planted various edible peas and rather dimly also planted mixed
in with them sweet peas. I belive sweet peas are slightly toxic. How
can i identify which are which? I would like to eat the edible peas!

This is nature's way of removing dozy gardeners from the gene pool.
'Bye.
The pods are substantially different, I assume you know what edible pea
pods look like, then you will have no problems.

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address are never read.

Xenia writes
I have planted various edible peas and rather dimly also planted mixed
in with them sweet peas. I belive sweet peas are slightly toxic.

I've an idea it may be more than 'slightly'

How
can i identify which are which? I would like to eat the edible peas!

Sweet pea pods start about an inch or two long, only about a quarter of
an inch wide. They tend to be a slightly blue-ey green, and the pods
aren't shiny - they are hairy. Remove any pods you find that are like
this, it saves confusion later.

Ordinary peas are obviously like the ones n the supermarket - shiny, not
hairy. Sugar snap peas are similar. Mange-tout peas are picked before
the peas inside swell but are also shiny bright green.

Don't eat any pods which you are unsure of.

And you could tie a bit of string around any plant which has big
fragrant flowers. Also - with sweet peas, if you keep taking the dead
heads off, you will continue to get new flowers. So if you keep doing
that (check every day for dying flowers) you won't get any pods on the
sweet peas.
--
Kay

moghouse writes
On Jun 24, 8:11*pm, Xenia wrote:
I have planted various edible peas and rather dimly also planted mixed
in with them sweet peas. *I belive sweet peas are slightly toxic. *How
can i identify which are which? *I would like to eat the edible peas!

This is nature's way of removing dozy gardeners from the gene pool.
'Bye.

That's an uncharacteristically sour comment!
--
Kay

On Jun 25, 10:59*am, K wrote:

This is nature's way of removing dozy gardeners from the gene pool.
'Bye.

That's an uncharacteristically sour *comment!

You just couldn't see the smile when I typed it! ; }

On 24 June, 23:42, moghouse wrote:
On Jun 24, 8:11*pm, Xenia wrote:

I have planted various edible peas and rather dimly also planted mixed
in with them sweet peas. *I belive sweet peas are slightly toxic. *How
can i identify which are which? *I would like to eat the edible peas!

This is nature's way of removing dozy gardeners from the gene pool.
'Bye.

Are you always as helpful as this? Wouldn't surprise me to find out
that the computer is your only friend.

McKevvy

On Jun 25, 12:46*pm, McKevvy wrote:

This is nature's way of removing dozy gardeners from the gene pool.
'Bye.

Are you always as helpful as this? Wouldn't surprise me to find out
that the computer is your only friend.

My relationship with my computer is purely platonic! Some people, it
seems, just cannot handle the truth (thank you, Jack)

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McKevvy writes
On 24 June, 23:42, moghouse wrote:
On Jun 24, 8:11*pm, Xenia wrote:

I have planted various edible peas and rather dimly also planted mixed
in with them sweet peas. *I belive sweet peas are slightly toxic. *How
can i identify which are which? *I would like to eat the edible peas!

This is nature's way of removing dozy gardeners from the gene pool.
'Bye.

Are you always as helpful as this? Wouldn't surprise me to find out
that the computer is your only friend.

Oh, come on! It was obviously a joke and it made me laugh.

Where is your sense of humour?

Roy.
--
Roy Bailey
West Berkshire.

Edible peas have white flowers only. So anything with a coloured flower is a sweet pea. The edible pea pod is also larger.

On 26 June, 17:53, Roy Bailey wrote:
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McKevvy writesOn 24 June, 23:42, moghouse wrote:
On Jun 24, 8:11*pm, Xenia wrote:

I have planted various edible peas and rather dimly also planted mixed
in with them sweet peas. *I belive sweet peas are slightly toxic. *How
can i identify which are which? *I would like to eat the edible peas!

This is nature's way of removing dozy gardeners from the gene pool.
'Bye.

Are you always as helpful as this? Wouldn't surprise me to find out
that the computer is your only friend.

Oh, come on! It was obviously a joke and it made me laugh.

Where is your sense of humour?

Roy.
--
Roy Bailey
West Berkshire.

Thanks for the comments. I shall try the edible ones and cut the
pretty flowers. We all have to start somewhere and one who has never
made mistakes has done nothing.

Alice

On Jun 26, 5:53*pm, Roy Bailey wrote:

This is nature's way of removing dozy gardeners from the gene pool.
'Bye.

Are you always as helpful as this? Wouldn't surprise me to find out
that the computer is your only friend.

Oh, come on! It was obviously a joke and it made me laugh.

Where is your sense of humour?

To be honest I thought, bearing in mind the extreme differences
between the two ,size, colour, texture etc. that somebody was winding
us up!