RE: snap peas

Hi all,

  Does this blue-green color apply to scarlet runner beans?  Mine are not
deep green, more pale green.  Being grown in a container up a trellis on my
deck.  First time growing these, and I used a different brand of potting
soil than I used before.  Just wanted to know if they were ok.  They seem to
be growing slow.  Can anyone help??

Thanks,
Beth (MD zone 7)

  

-----Original Message-----
From: Rick Grazzini [r*@centrelab.com]
Sent: Monday, June 14, 1999 3:11 PM
To: 'veggie-list@eskimo.com'
Subject: RE: snap peas


Martha, 
Most peas (including snap peas) have a blue green cast to them.  Is this the
color that you mean?  

If the plants tend towards yellow, they are either water-stressed (one way
or the other!), or need to be fed.  The yellow color could also be
indicative of nitrogen-deficiency.  

Training them back down the trellis?  Sure, if you want to work them
everyday.  Plants naturally grow UP.  You would be working against their
nature, and that's tough to do.  

Rick

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Martha Kennebeck [k*@prodigy.net]
> Sent: Monday, June 14, 1999 2:49 PM
> To: veggie-list@eskimo.com
> Subject: snap peas
> 
> 
> I am growing snap peas for the first time this year.  They 
> are growing very
> well up the trellis I constructed from T-posts and heavy 
> twine.  They are
> green, but not REALLY green.  How green are they supposed to be?  Also
> wondering if I will be able to train them to grow back DOWN 
> the trellis as
> it is about 4 1/2 feet tall and they are about to the top.  
> Should I just
> try to make it taller?
> Thanks for any suggestions you may have.
> 
> Martha Kennebeck MD (Mother on Duty) :o)
> 
>
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