What to do with my mange-tout?

lolly5648

I started these indoors planning to plant them out when they were a few inches high. They are now around a foot high and have flowers but I can't put them outside as it is too wet and windy and we have clay soil which has flooded.

The forecast is for another two weeks of this weather. So although I could put them outside temperature wise, I think the wind and torrential rain will see them off.

Any ideas on what to do?

MissMoneypenny

Plant them all in a moderate size pot and use canes to form a wigwam to trail them up. Try to keep the pot near light. Then when the weather gets better, you can put the pot outside.

I've only just put my mange-tout seeds into soil (in a pot in the greenhouse).

Davesnave

Pray? :A

Seriously, mine have been out for over a week now, and if not exactly thriving, they are at least still alive and climbing their sticks. I am at 550.'

Mind you, no wind or rain in sunny Devon, of course, if any potential [STRIKE]grockles[/STRIKE] tourists are reading this. :cool:

lolly5648

Davesnave wrote: »

Pray? :A

Mind you, no wind or rain in sunny Devon, of course, if any potential [STRIKE]grockles[/STRIKE] tourists are reading this. :cool:

I was in Devon from 26th to 30th April and there was rain and flooding every day apart from the Friday afternoon!

Sambucus_Nigra

Mine have been out for about 2 months - under a fleece and are starting to give me pods. Happy days!

tim_n

Just stuck mine out - giant variety from real seeds

Davesnave

lolly5648 wrote: »

I was in Devon from 26th to 30th April and there was rain and flooding every day apart from the Friday afternoon!

Ah, you were probably in the wrong bit.....:o

Seriously, because we're in the middle, the rain is often dumped on the moors north and south of us and we can miss the worst of the coastal stuff.

Down-side is no beach, so no tourists, and still stuck in feudal times.....(wrong kind of serf :rotfl:)

My peas are the Bijous from Real Seeds too.