The Art of Growing Microgreens

Soilsniffer · January 22, 2018

>> A page or two back I posted what variety of pea to maybe stay away from.
>> Post #210...avoid pea species from Genus Lathyrus.

Good info, thanks.

Field peas (Pisum sativum) are good, and safe.

Something called the 'Sweet Pea' (Lathyrus odoratus) is the bad one to eat, that has some toxicity to it. You need to eat a pickup truck load of it to get sick, but the toxins are there.

With that said, from what I can see, the toxic 'sweet pea' is grown for its pretty flowers, I don't see them being sold as food.

Finally, some of yinz grow dwarf sugar peas. They're safe. One would think that something called a 'sugar pea' would ipso fatso (A.B.) be a 'sweet pea'. Nope. The dwarf sugar pea, like ALL the peas I see for sale as food, is a field pea, pisum sativum.

Sweet peas are sold in the flower section of seed catalogs; field peas, veg section.

January 22, 2018	#11
Soilsniffer Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: z7, Richmond VA Posts: 187	>> A page or two back I posted what variety of pea to maybe stay away from. >> Post #210...avoid pea species from Genus Lathyrus. Good info, thanks. Field peas (Pisum sativum) are good, and safe. Something called the 'Sweet Pea' (Lathyrus odoratus) is the bad one to eat, that has some toxicity to it. You need to eat a pickup truck load of it to get sick, but the toxins are there. With that said, from what I can see, the toxic 'sweet pea' is grown for its pretty flowers, I don't see them being sold as food. Finally, some of yinz grow dwarf sugar peas. They're safe. One would think that something called a 'sugar pea' would ipso fatso (A.B.) be a 'sweet pea'. Nope. The dwarf sugar pea, like ALL the peas I see for sale as food, is a field pea, pisum sativum. Sweet peas are sold in the flower section of seed catalogs; field peas, veg section. __________________ Identifying garlic is done mostly by consensus. Many are like trying to identify the difference between twins.