The highlights
- Deep purple pods with attractive bicoloured flowers
- Eat raw, steam lightly or add to stir fries
- Train up a trellis – suitable for pots too
- Continuous pickings from July to October
Description
- Grow this attractive mangetout pea plant for colour as well as taste – the vibrant purple pods are a real headturner, with the addition of gorgeous bicoloured flowers
- Best harvested young and tender – eat raw, steam, stir fry or add to summer risottos (they turn dark green when cooked!)
- Grow up a trellis, wall or obelisk or even in patio pots
- Rich in anthrocyanin (antioxidant) and vitamin C
- Plant out after the first frosts and harvest from June to October
- Premium garden ready plants grown by vegetable experts on a family run farm in Lancashire and sent to you at the best possible time for planting
- Growing your own gives you healthy, fresh produce with a lower carbon plantprint than anything you can buy from a shop
- Easy to grow and care for – plant in a sunny raised bed or border and wait for the crops to roll in. You should see your first mangetout within 12-15 weeks
