RE: non-flowering peas
> > 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
>
It is difficult to understand your seasons and climate on the other side
of the globe but looking at it from the assumption that your seasons
differ by six months then equivalent here would still be mid-winter and
we would not expect peas to be flowering for quite some time yet. You
are surrounded by ocean, does it make for warmer or cooler winters? Our
Gulf Stream tends to keep us a bit warmer than parts of the continent.
If the peas react to day length rather than temperature then I would
expect the restricted light to have an effect. I think you have just to
wait a while, my guess would be flowers in September for you, (March for
us). Ask local inhabitants for advice.
Allan
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Allan Day Hereford allan@crwys.demon.co.uk
