I have some early onward peas that are about ready for harvest. There
are about 20 plants, each with a good quantity of pods. 2 questions:
1. If I start picking these, will more flowers/pods appear ? Or is it a
one-stop harvest ?
2. Can these peas be frozen straight from the pod, or do I need to
cook/eat them straight away ? I'll have loads!

NC wrote:
> I have some early onward peas that are about ready for harvest. There
> are about 20 plants, each with a good quantity of pods. 2 questions:
> 1. If I start picking these, will more flowers/pods appear ? Or is it a
> one-stop harvest ?
> 2. Can these peas be frozen straight from the pod, or do I need to
> cook/eat them straight away ? I'll have loads!

Hiya NC. No, you won't get more flowers. You ought, next year, to plant
successive peas at about one week interval. I do this, and I get new
peas a week or two later after an initial harvest or harvests. Don't
freeze the peas with their pods. I've never seen nor heard of this
being done - but I freeze all my peas (off the pods) as I've got too
many to consume in one go. Some people blanch them first - boil them
quickly, cool then freeze. I freeze them directly then defrost and
cook. I also like them raw especially broadbeans and my problem is that
I consume vast quantities on the lotty and sometimes find I'm bringing
very little home :o)

"La Puce" wrote
> NC wrote:
> > I have some early onward peas that are about ready for harvest. There
> > are about 20 plants, each with a good quantity of pods. 2 questions:
>
> You ought, next year, to plant successive peas at about one week interval.


Hi. Is it too late to sow these peas now, for a late harvest?

Thanks.

"Jane" <jane [at] hereandthere.co.uk> wrote in message
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> "La Puce" wrote
> > NC wrote:
> > > I have some early onward peas that are about ready for harvest. There
> > > are about 20 plants, each with a good quantity of pods. 2 questions:
> >
> > You ought, next year, to plant successive peas at about one week
interval.
>
>
> Hi. Is it too late to sow these peas now, for a late harvest?
>
You've still got time, just about. However, I find that later crops are much
more prone to get mildewed here in northern England.

"NC" wrote
>I have some early onward peas that are about ready for harvest. There are
>about 20 plants, each with a good quantity of pods. 2 questions:
> 1. If I start picking these, will more flowers/pods appear ? Or is it a
> one-stop harvest ?
> 2. Can these peas be frozen straight from the pod, or do I need to
> cook/eat them straight away ? I'll have loads!

1. No, it's a one stop harvest. Be careful how you pick them, use two hands,
or you can damage the plants.

2. Yes, pod them and put them in freezer bags in the quantity you use for
one meal (6/7oz for two ?), squeeze out all the air and freeze. No need to
blanch.

It's normal to make a 6 inch wide drill and plant three rows in that about 2
inches apart each way so you get a lot more than 20 plants per row.
(provided the mice don't get to them!!!)
We sometimes grow a second crop of early peas (Early Onward, Feltham First)
late in the season, planted about now, but they need plenty of water to keep
them growing through the heat and dryness of the summer.
We have given up with our tall main crop peas, it's just seems too hot and
dry here these days.

Of course timings depend where you are in the UK, and so does the dryness it
seems. :-(

--
Regards
Bob Hobden
17mls W. of London.UK

Bob Hobden wrote:
> "NC" wrote
>
>>I have some early onward peas that are about ready for harvest. There are
>>about 20 plants, each with a good quantity of pods. 2 questions:
>>1. If I start picking these, will more flowers/pods appear ? Or is it a
>>one-stop harvest ?
>>2. Can these peas be frozen straight from the pod, or do I need to
>>cook/eat them straight away ? I'll have loads!
>
>
> 1. No, it's a one stop harvest. Be careful how you pick them, use two hands,
> or you can damage the plants.
>
> 2. Yes, pod them and put them in freezer bags in the quantity you use for
> one meal (6/7oz for two ?), squeeze out all the air and freeze. No need to
> blanch.

Really, no need ?? Everything that google came back with said blanch
them....

> It's normal to make a 6 inch wide drill and plant three rows in that about 2
> inches apart each way so you get a lot more than 20 plants per row.
> (provided the mice don't get to them!!!)
> We sometimes grow a second crop of early peas (Early Onward, Feltham First)
> late in the season, planted about now, but they need plenty of water to keep
> them growing through the heat and dryness of the summer.
> We have given up with our tall main crop peas, it's just seems too hot and
> dry here these days.
>
> Of course timings depend where you are in the UK, and so does the dryness it
> seems. :-(
>

This is my first year with a garden - and I'm learning all the
time....my main lesson so far is that I dont need, or have room for, 5
potato plants !
Thanks for the reply.

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