As it is British Pea Week I thought it would be a great opportunity to share with you what happened to the dried peas I grew after harvesting them for pea shoots. I was amazed, in fact I am doing this on a much bigger scale next year!
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Wow, I'm definitely going to try this, ty x
I love this idea..will try this in the windowsill after the summer. Love from Glasgow X
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awesome idea!! definitely doing this next year.
Yes, this works… I had the same idea this year. I do really enjoy your advice and videos.. But the background music is irritating…. I'd much rather listen to your marvellous gardening wisdom. Thanks.
Brilliant…will have a go, thanks. I do agree, background music is annoying…rather just listen to you.
How interesting! I knew you could eat pea sprouts/shoots but you're eating the tops, much larger than I thought. I'll have to try that! Do they taste like peas? Or just regular greens?
For those who can only find split peas, these work too. Just spread them onto a seed tray just as Huw did and away you go. Something less than half of what you sow will grow. When peas are split one half often has the dormant root still intact. If the damage isn’t too severe, these will grow. Most split peas though are the hypertendril types so you get lots of tendrils but not many leaves. They still taste good in a salad though.
Are these organic?
Huw, have you thought about letting them dry in the bed and use those peas for next year? Then you do not have to purchase new ones, even though they seem inexpensive where you live. Keep up the good growing work. Inspiring.
Right. Sprouts and shoots are easy, fast and cheap to produce. They are rich in any kind of nutrition such as minerals, vitamins and many others. Everybody should eat more of them.
How would this work with dried chickpeas and lentils? I know that you can sprout them in jars but can you eat the shoots as well?
I love pea shoots but its expensive to use pea seed to sow 200 in a large tray to enjoy in salad, stir-fry ect, so i will give thr shop brought ones ago
I saw BIGGA in the shops today and thought 'there is no way they will grow' ……….going back tomorrow for a few packs!, thanks Hugh, your inquisitiveness is infectious.
Do a video where you grow a bunch of plants from different store cupboard food.
You could do one where you regrow veg, but I was thinking more like dried peas, beans, fenugreek seeds, mustard seed, wheat (grass) etc
Planted some bigga dried peas today for pea shoots and am going to fit some in somewhere for a crop of peas. My Dad grew peas from leo dried peas when I was a kid with good results. 50p worth of these dried peas will give you stacks of fresh peas and pea shoots. Good idea as seeds are harder to come by at present.
I bought three boxes of dried peas in March during the peak of the panic buying in the national emergency. They were one of the few things left in the supermarket, I think because most British people have forgotten what they are. So now I'm going to plant some in the garden.
I hope you can update on this project, a raised bed full of 50p peas!
I'm going to give this a bash on a much smaller scale.
Hi! Cool video. Did you plant the rest of the plants outside after harvesting the pea shoots?
I actually accidentally grow dried spilt peas and I have 4 plants now growing.
This is so cool
I’ve done this too, this year and it’s amazing. I’m doing the same as you, have decided to leave some shoots and plant them in the garden. They germinated no trouble at all and look really healthy.
Peas are the ultimate crop, it's basically impossible to go wrong. Nitrogen fixing too! super plant 🙂
WOW! Thank you, doing right now!
Lot more fun than Vegas and absolutely guiltless.
Thank you I was wondering about This and this is the only good video I could find. Good job
I thought that split peas were just dried up regular peas but it turns out they’re completely a different variety