RE: non-flowering peas
I have received the message but am at a lose at what to say about the
problem. Maybe some of the others on the list will come out of their
gardens long enough to answer your question.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Hantie Braybrook [SMTP:hantie.braybrook@pop3.xtra.co.nz]
> Sent: Friday, August 13, 1999 5:32 PM
> To: veggie-list@eskimo.com
> Subject: Re: non-flowering peas
>
> It is the second time I post this message. I haven't received any
> replies. Please can someone let me know if they have received this
> message.
>
> Thank you
> Hantie
>
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> To: veggie-list@eskimo.com
> Subject: Non-flowering peas
> Send reply to: hantie.braybrook@xtra.co.nz
> Date sent: Fri, 13 Aug 1999 00:56:54
>
> I have been lurking for a few months and find the list very
> interesting. We moved to Auckland (NZ) in the beginning of this year
> and I have planted a few vegetables in pots as there wasn't a suitable
> place in the garden. Most of the vegetables are doing well, although
> growth is slow. I planted 3 types of peas - sugar snap, snow peas and
> greenfeast. They are growing very well and for the first time powdery
> mildew isn't a problem. But, the sugar snap and snow peas aren't
> flowering. The green feast is flowering and producing peas, which is
> underplanted with some beetroot. The sugar snap and snow peas are
> underplanted with mizuna and senposai. When I planted, I enriched the
> potting soil with compost, pelletised sheep manure and inorganic
> fertilizer. The broad beans also doesn't flower. The plants don't
> get a lot of direct sunlight. Why is the green feast flowering, but
> not the others?
>
> Hantie Braybrook
