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Re: Tall peas -- seed saving revisited

My peas are barely 8 inches tall.  I'm a little jealous.

Steve  (Maritime...)

Meconella wrote:
> 
> In a message dated 5/6/98 5:41:27 PM Pacific Daylight Time,
> Rebecca.Neason@foxinternet.net writes:
> 
> << I leave the vines in the ground until the pods are very full and a
>  little leathery, indicating that they are beginning to lose moisture.
>  Then I pull up the vines and pile them in the corener of the garden.
>  (It helps to have a huge garden with lots of fallow space.)   >>
> 
> Hi Steve and all,
> 
> A while back you wrote this re saving pea seeds.  Today I just pulled up what
> was left of my current favorite sugar snaps,  sugar mel.  Many of the unpicked
> pods were full and close to dry,  some had snail damage,  and a couple might
> have been too young to contain viable seeds (I ate those).  Since I have the
> space and the time,  I am saving the seed from the pods that escaped my
> picking.  There always seem to be some.  The almost dry plants I put on a
> wooden deck in the sun,  and can hardly wait to extract the seed and see how
> many I get.  In my climate,  I can grow peas,  tho only shorter ones,  from
> early fall all through the winter into spring and hence, I use lots of seed.
> I can see great potential here.
> 
> Thanks again for the information,  Janet.
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