Interesting thread, thank you! My mangetout are a similar height and no flowers - I had put it down to the weather being much chillier than usual but perhaps they need a dose of salts
Weather in Bristol has been dry and warm (not especially hot) since end of March though Feb was excessively wet and most of March cool with occasional light frosts. Much brighter & warmer at present. John H
Hi Shauna2021, glad to learn my thread is useful to someone else. I will post on here the result (if any) of the Epsom Salts treatment. Probably safest to wait & see if I’ve killed mine off first!🫣 John H
Weather here ( coastal Somerset ) similar to yours @John Harding and my Oregon Sugar Pod peas are also late to flower. Raised bed, south facing and now between 2 and 3 feet high after planting out last month.
Give it a rest @war garden 572 - you've no more idea of the conditions here than fly. I'd also point out that the query was late to flower and not late to produce.
We've got your bl**dy weather @Dovefromabove - you can gladly have it back, and give us ours -it's got me all out of sorts!
It's just as well I didn't use a well known name up here from a TV show @John Harding . The wife of Rab C Nesbitt was called Mary Doll, so it could easily have been that
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Just to help, mine are a mass of flowers. My seed is mainly what I've saved from previous years, and therefore a mixture, but I lined my drill with chicken manure pellets before planting and have treated them with granular lime since they showed. All peas and beans seem to respond to an alkaline environment, at least on my ground. Weather has been uber-warm for some weeks here with no significant rain.
philippasmith2 it has not flowered because the plant has not matured enough. the variety alderman under ideal condition produces a crop in 70-75 days. it is only been been 60 days since the seed was sown on april 6 add 5 days for germination. that gives you june 20. would be 75 days. this calculation is for directed seeded plants. for transplanted plants you need take into account transplant shock and hardening which can add another 10-15 days. the time from flower pollination to ripe pod is 10-15 days. By my experience and basic garden math I would not expect him to get peas before july 5!!!
I wasn’t asking about when the peas would be ready to harvest, just why are there no flowers when they are about 3 feet high! John H
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you are are expecting them to early.
you need to wait another 3-4 weeks
glad to learn my thread is useful to someone else. I will post on here the result (if any) of the Epsom Salts treatment. Probably safest to wait & see if I’ve killed mine off first!🫣 John H
It's just as well I didn't use a well known name up here from a TV show @John Harding . The wife of Rab C Nesbitt was called Mary Doll, so it could easily have been that
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...