Shelling Pea Telephone Alderman

The Shelling Pea Telephone Alderman is a well known and reliable variety that produces heavy crops of large, curved, dark green pea pods of the highest quality.

This well known heritage maincrop has, with good reason been around since the 1890’s. The plants have a tall growth habit that will require supports but is well worth the effort for the huge yields that it produces.

Each pod of Pea contains up to 11 succulent peas with a superb flavour, but the real benefit is the extended cropping period. From sowing you can expect to pick your first peas in about 2½ months and picking can continue for a month or more.

Although they’re meant to be shelling peas they are just as good if you pick them when they’re still flat and eat them whole. Effectively a dual-purpose pea, they remain stringless until quite a late stage.

The peas are large, plump and juicy – and the yield can literally be massive and flavour is sublime. Even when they reach a large size they remain exquisitely sweet.

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