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  • Peas and sweet peas

    Hi All

    I am a little confused... I am growing peas but have heard people growing sweet peas in with the peas. Now I know that sweet peas are poisonous so how on earth do you tell the difference?
    Donna

    "You need to propagate to accumulate..."

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    sweet pea flowers are usually more colourful, larger and scented compared to pea flowers. I think I am right saying that they are also on a longer stem. When the pods form (which you don't really want your sweet peas to do as they stop flowering then) the eating pea pods are much larger and flatter. Sweet pea pods are a little bit hairy (if I remember right). It is quite easy to tell the difference

    pea pod ... http://www.mytinyplot.co.uk/wp-conte...6/pea-pods.jpg

    sweet pea pod ... http://themain-ingredient.info/wp-co...t-pea-pods.jpg
    Last edited by shirlthegirl43; 23-06-2009, 12:05 PM.
    Happy Gardening,
    Shirley

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    • #3
      hi,

      thanks for clearing that up, i always wondered why sweet peas were in a flower seed packet, while regular peas in a vegetable packet.

      Margaret

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      • #4
        they look completely different. You really can't confuse them.
        All gardeners know better than other gardeners." -- Chinese Proverb.

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        • #5
          But if you have kids and they pick their own stash of peas, better to be on the side of safety.
          "Orinoco was a fat lazy Womble"

          Please ignore everything I say, I make it up as I go along, not only do I generally not believe what I write, I never remember it either.

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          • #6
            Peas and sweetpeas

            if you want to grow both, which I do, it is quite normal to grow sweet peas on the same canes as your runner beans.
            There's pleasure sure in being mad that only madmen know - Anon

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            • #7
              Originally posted by womble View Post
              But if you have kids and they pick their own stash of peas, better to be on the side of safety.
              but you don't let sweet peas go to seed ... you keep on picking the flowers
              All gardeners know better than other gardeners." -- Chinese Proverb.

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