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Taiwan Sugar snow pea vines taller than described...

plantslayer
11 years ago

Has anyone grown the Taiwan Sugar variety of snow pea sold by Ed Hume as an organic seed? I have two 10ft rows planted, and the plants are doing pretty well now. The problem is, they were only supposed to be about 3 ft tall, and now they're more like 5 ft, possibly still growing. This wouldn't be a big deal, except they're now shading my tomatoes.

Does anyone know if these are supposed to be this tall? Did I perhaps do something to them to make them grow taller than normal?

They have lots of sunshine, and they were planted quite early, but for some reason they only started to get blossoms fairly high off the ground, maybe 2 feet up, so I'm wondering if the modest (I thought) doses of high nitro fertilizer I gave my brassica crops nearby might have caused them to shoot up. They do have a lot of blossoms up top now.

I'm thinking I might have to harvest them early and start cutting the vines back. Good thing the vines taste good too. ;)

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