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chez

Joined: 13 Aug 2006
Posts: 35934
Location: The Hive of the Uberbee, Quantock Hills, Somerset

Posted: Sun Mar 23, 14 4:46 pm Post subject: My peas have sprouted!
I just wanted to share. Obviously the mice will have eaten them all by tomorrow, but I'm enjoying it whilst I can.

sean
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Joined: 28 Oct 2004
Posts: 42207
Location: North Devon

Posted: Sun Mar 23, 14 4:49 pm Post subject:
You could pick them now. Pea shoots are quite trendy in risotti or salads. Obviously you won't get any peas but at least you'll get to eat them instead of just cursing the mice.

chez

Joined: 13 Aug 2006
Posts: 35934
Location: The Hive of the Uberbee, Quantock Hills, Somerset

Posted: Sun Mar 23, 14 4:51 pm Post subject:
I think it's traditional, though, isn't it? To plant the first ones and then do the annual Curse Of The Mice so the next lot grow? Which reminds me, we've run out of nutella and rat poison.

sean
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Location: North Devon

Posted: Sun Mar 23, 14 4:54 pm Post subject:
Nutella and rat poison risotto isn't nice though. Make one using pea shoots.

Green Rosie

Joined: 13 May 2007
Posts: 10498
Location: Calvados, France

Posted: Sun Mar 23, 14 5:05 pm Post subject:
I picked up some old protective blanket in the polytunnel today and 3 probably only day old mice fell out. Now renamed dead day old mice! My peas are a little bit safer this evening.

vegplot

Joined: 19 Apr 2007
Posts: 21301
Location: Bethesda, Gwynedd

Posted: Sun Mar 23, 14 6:42 pm Post subject:
Eat the mice.

bibbster

Joined: 17 Apr 2009
Posts: 1233
Location: Just a bit inland from Aberaeron

Posted: Sun Mar 23, 14 7:30 pm Post subject:
Dip the mice in the Nutella?

NorthernMonkeyGirl

Joined: 10 Apr 2011
Posts: 4587
Location: Peeping over your shoulder

Posted: Sun Mar 23, 14 7:32 pm Post subject:

dpack

Joined: 02 Jul 2005
Posts: 45468
Location: yes

Posted: Sun Mar 23, 14 8:20 pm Post subject:
a string soaked in paraffin or similar as a boundary repels mice from peas

Mistress Rose

Joined: 21 Jul 2011
Posts: 15578

Posted: Mon Mar 24, 14 7:00 am Post subject:

When we moved here our next door neighbour, who did a lot of gardening, told us that we would have to grow peas and beans indoors from seed then plant them out. We tried them in the ground the first year and found he was right. I do the peas in troughs made with a cut up compost sack in a seed tray; cut it long and the width the length of the seed tray, and long enough so that you can raise a couple of barriers about a 1/3 of the way and 2/3 of the way across and fill with compost. Some people use guttering. Beans I do in root trainers.

OtleyLad

Joined: 13 Jan 2007
Posts: 2737
Location: Otley, West Yorkshire

Posted: Mon Mar 24, 14 7:15 am Post subject:

I also sow my peas in pots - 3 to each 3inch pot in the greenhouse. Doesn't do them any harm and thwarts the mice. They germinate quicker too.
It is also true that its time consuming to them plant out 36 pots at a time (I don't try and separate the plants when planting out and they seem to do well).

Just an aside, this year I have sown Norli again from a packet I have had for over 5 years - near 100% germination. Pea seeds seem to have a long shelf life.

vegplot

Joined: 19 Apr 2007
Posts: 21301
Location: Bethesda, Gwynedd

Posted: Mon Mar 24, 14 9:23 am Post subject:

dpack wrote:

a string soaked in paraffin or similar as a boundary repels mice from peas

and if things get desperate you can set fire to the string.

Nicky cigreen

Joined: 25 Jun 2007
Posts: 9715
Location: Devon, uk

Posted: Mon Mar 24, 14 9:51 am Post subject:

I sow my peas in seed trays. line the tray with newspaper, fill with compost 35 seeds per tray, 7 trays per row. When they are tall enough they have put out feelers for the sticks, we dig a shallow trench and just slide the peas into place, compost newspaper and all.

with pigeons, mice and slugs, I got nothing from sowing outdoors, my method means we eat peas

doesn't matter how many times you do it, seeds germinating are a joy.

alison
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Joined: 29 Oct 2004
Posts: 12918
Location: North Devon

Posted: Mon Mar 24, 14 11:03 am Post subject:
If you sow them in guttering you can slide them out when they are big enough, and it doesn't disturb the roots as much.

Mistress Rose

Joined: 21 Jul 2011
Posts: 15578

Posted: Tue Mar 25, 14 7:20 am Post subject:
You don't disturb the roots very much using the way I use, although they do sometimes curl round into another 'trough'. Like the chocolate mice.

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