Peas dying off mysteriously

This year I've been growing peas, it's my second year and in my experience they're just really easy to grow and productive. But this year they have suddenly all started turning yellow and withered, and the peas have dried out. At first I thought they were just dying out naturally, or they didn't have enough water, but I've given them plenty of water, and some of the pea plants affected by this are quite young and small. Could it possibly be root rot, or some other disease?

 

Yes - I noticed today that mine are the same. As a newbie gardener I just assumed I had done something wrong.

 

Do you live in the UK? Perhaps it could be the hot weather we had recently?

 

Ha. Who'd have thunk it!!! The hot weather in Newcastle upon Tyne was too much. There's a first.

 

They've set seed, as far as they're concerned they've done their job, so there's no point in carrying on.

 

Cack!!!

 

Erm, no ... s.e.e.d!

 

No swearing in Cymraeg please

 

It's definitely been too hot for mine over here. The best crop I ever had was from an autumn direct sowing, because they came up early, before the heat really kicked in. However this summer has been exceptionally hot so far. Since then, every direct sowing I've made has been eaten by mice.

 

The ground is dry and cracked and they have gone too seed, beyond the point where they're sweet and tender.

Sowing in multi purpose compost and then planting out can make it worse, causing a dry pocket of MPC sitting in the surrounding topsoil, this can happen if they aren't kept welll watered after planting out so the roots will speed into the surrounding soil, even worse if the plants were rootbound when planted out.

 

Oh, I guess it was the weather then. But that doesn't explain why only some of my peas are affected?

 

That's interesting I've never tried an autumn sowing, I always thought it would not be sunny enough, around what time do you sow? I can imagine mice would probably attack my seeds too, although I do have a cat.

 

@HumaadGardening I sowed around October or even November. They don't come up until the following spring mind, which is why they often disappear.

 

@Lorea I may well try that this year, although maybe instead of direct sowing I'll sow in pots.