How many peas?

One of my favourite things in the vegetable garden is fresh peas. This year I have the usual Sugar Bon and Kelvedon Wonder. they are lovely but the yield is not high. How many plants should I grow if I want some every day, and how can I increase the yield? At the moment I am picking the pods in in ones and twos. Am i just being impatient again?

 

i want to grow peas too - the more the better i would have said, you know they'll never reach the pot!
sorry couldnt answer your question.

 

I was just wondering if I am getting a low yield. I've got another batch just raedy to plant out! Next year I will be organised and have a continiuous supply of seedlings....

 

I'm sowing second bed of Kelvedon wonder this week, for a later crop.

Good soil preparation and siting are important things to consider.

As for quantities, its hard to tell. I sow 12 plants at a time, every week for a month, and still run out !

 

I have always used bachelers dried peas and find that as they were ortiginally grown for good yield and taste they should do the same for me. I am never dissapointed.

 

Thanks Oktarine, I am obviously not sowing enough then, and my site preparation left much to be desired. This spring I forked over [I can't dig] ground that hadn't been used for 5 years but had been dug over 2years ago, weeded with a hand fork and applied dried chicken manure. Then roughly raked and planted.
JohnB :eek: I would never have thought of that! I'd have thought they'd be treated in some way that would make them non-viable... I'll have to try it! :D

 

Liz. if you want a good cropping variety of pea then use Hurst Greeen Shaft. you will get between 8 and 10 peas per pod. To get the best results you need to dig a drill roughly 2 to 3inches deep and about the width of a border spade. You then scatter the entire contents of the packet of peas evenly into the bottom of the drill. Cover with about 2 inches of doil and let nature take it`s course. If you don`t get between 15 and 20 lbs of peas (unpodded) then there is something wrong. Don`t forget your peapod wine. David.

 

For doil read soil. David

 

Thanks David. I have been religiously planting sinle plants about 3" apart and run out of space very quickly. Your method sounds much easier!
As I've had success with planting tomato seeds from Morrisons I think I'll try the same with peas- they have some lovely local grown [somerset] ones at the moment.