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Fleecewife

  • Joined May 2010
  • South Lanarkshire
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Re: Pea Heaven
« Reply #15 on: August 11, 2015, 06:42:29 pm »
15 metres is hardly going to work, so you use shorter lengths, depending on the area you have to hang them up while they start to grow.  I hang mine from the crop bars in the tunnel, several side by side.  We wouldn't use even 1x 15 metre length row of peas if they were all ready at once, so we have learnt to grow only as much as we need.  Beats faffing around with lots of little modules, or losing 95% of the peas you sow. :peas: :peas: :peas: :peas: :peas:
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pgkevet

  • Joined Jul 2011
Re: Pea Heaven
« Reply #16 on: August 11, 2015, 07:45:03 pm »
..as i said earlier.. i sow under chicken wire and don't lose seed. As for the crops in one or two large hits.. the spare gets frozen; the same deal with my broad beans (whch look about ready to rip out and bulk pick)

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Carse Goodlifers

  • Joined Oct 2013
  • Perthshire
Re: Pea Heaven
« Reply #17 on: August 11, 2015, 09:10:40 pm »
......I'm keeping very quiet about those horrible little maggots which can infest a pea crop, in case they hear me and take it as an invitation.......
Pea moth - Very small caterpillar which eats into the peas.  Eggs are laid on the leaves, the larvae then eat into the pod and then tunnel into the pea.  The only pest which eats peas in the pods.

 

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