Fothergill's Pea Onward Seeds

Details:

• Botanical Name: Pisum sativum, a superior and highly reliable wrinkled-seeded dwarf marrowfat pea.
• Classic Marrowfat Profile: An old-fashioned variety that produces large, plump, and deeply flavorful peas with a wonderfully sweet, meltingly tender texture.
• Blunt Dark Green Pods: Produces masses of distinctive, wide, and blunt-ended pods that are tightly packed with up to 8 or 9 large, uniform peas.
• Perfect for the UK Climate: Specially esteemed for its robust performance in British soils, showing excellent resilience against unpredictable summer weather.
• Compact 60cm Dwarf Habit: Grows to a neat, manageable height of 60cm (24in), making it an excellent space-saving choice for allotments, vegetable beds, and raised kitchen gardens.
• Exhibition & Disease Resistant: Features built-in natural resistance to common garden diseases, keeping the vines exceptionally healthy to produce uniform, show-bench-quality pods.

Care Instructions:

• Sow seeds directly outdoors from mid-spring to early summer in flat-bottomed drills 5cm deep, spacing the seeds roughly 5cm apart in fertile, well-worked soil.
• Provide a short support structure, such as pea netting, low interlocking bamboo frames, or branching twigs, to keep the 60cm vines upright and the heavy crop off the damp ground.
• Water the rows deeply and consistently once the first flowers appear and throughout pod development to ensure the peas remain juicy, plump, and full of natural sweetness.