Pea Seed Bargain

vicwatson

Bargain of the year (for those with green fingers I guess !!)

250g Box of Batchelors Marrowfat Peas 99 cent in Tesco

Soak in water overnight, the next morning you are ready to sow!!....they'll germinate really quickly (within a week) once sown.

I used about 50g and have 96 pea plants growing from that.

You can tape up the box and they'll be good to sow next year (or just grow more this year and freeze them when ready to pick.

You cannot beat fresh peas picked and cooked within minutes of picking in the garden.

Pea plants aren't too fussy to their soil but a grow bag for 1.99 in Aldi (fits about 8 plants) and they'll love you for it !!

A great way to get a rake of pea plants for very cheap, and you wont get a better taste of peas than the ones from your own garden and the way described above saves you a bomb as the packet pea seeds are a rip off !!

Enjoy !

Seapoint

I'm sorry, but I have to disagree. I have never managed to get the peas to the kitchen table. Between my 'testing' and a 2 ~ 3 year old 'helping' with the garden they just get munched straight from the pea stakes.

vicwatson

Seapoint wrote: »

I'm sorry, but I have to disagree. I have never managed to get the peas to the kitchen table. Between my 'testing' and a 2 ~ 3 year old 'helping' with the garden they just get munched straight from the pea stakes.

Grow more....behind a big fence, they are great uncooked in salads too and as seapoint points out...just to scoff on picking !,

IrishIrish

I need more info......

How long between planting and eating?

Do I need to do anything other than water them while they are growing?

Thanks

vicwatson

IrishIrish wrote: »

I need more info......

How long between planting and eating?

Do I need to do anything other than water them while they are growing?

Thanks

About 10 weeks if sowing them now. If you can germinate them indoors it's far better and in my experience I've been able to shift them out to grow bags about mid late May. They grow fast once warm weather comes around. No need for feed or anything just keep them watered.

All ya gotta do is put a few stakes in to support them as they grow.

Caroleia

thanks for this! I've been meaning to do it and was going to get seeds in Woodies. Never thought of marrowfats. It a great one to do with kids.

Paranoid Mandroid

IrishIrish wrote: »

I need more info......

How long between planting and eating?

Do I need to do anything other than water them while they are growing?

Thanks

Just give peas a chance!

kneemos

Grew them for a couple of years.Never made the plate either though.

vicwatson

kneemos wrote: »

Grew them for a couple of years.Never made the plate either though.

You mustn't be growing enough

0lddog

vicwatson wrote: »

Bargain of the year (for those with green fingers I guess !!)

250g Box of Batchelors Marrowfat Peas 99 cent in Tesco.........!

( Strictly because this is 'Bargain Alerts' ) An even better bargain must be the 500g pack ( in Dunnes @ 1.49 )



Any guidance as to how high these peas grow ?



( Dunnes have their own brand IIRC 340g @ 69c ........ are they as good as Batchelors ? )

evolving_doors

WTF.. I always assumed they were irradiated or something...

Im so there.

vicwatson

Used this method with marrowfat peas from batchelors decades ago too and worked perfect then also

vicwatson

0lddog wrote: »

( Strictly because this is 'Bargain Alerts' ) An even better bargain must be the 500g pack ( in Dunnes @ 1.49 )



Any guidance as to how high these peas grow ?



( Dunnes have their own brand IIRC 340g @ 69c ........ are they as good as Batchelors ? )

Only ever used batchelors, but I did buy a pkt of "marrowfat peas" from Aldi before I bought this years box of batchelors just a couple of weeks ago and they AREN'T the same, they looked yak and weren't suitable for planting as some were in halves etc. they were chucked in the bin.

For me in the past they've grown about 4-5ft high by the time they've generously parted with their food for us !