Re: non-flowering peas
Peas require lots of sunshine to flower as do most veggies.
-----Original Message-----
From: Smith, Sue <SueS@otc.psu.edu>
To: 'hantie.braybrook@xtra.co.nz' <hantie.braybrook@xtra.co.nz>;
veggie-list@eskimo.com <veggie-list@eskimo.com>
Date: Monday, August 16, 1999 11:01 AM
Subject: 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.
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>> -----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
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