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ONE TO TRY Pea ‘Valido’

I love peas, but don’t have loads of space to grow them so the variety needs to be both compact and productive. ‘Valido’ from Johnsons Seeds promised to be both of these things so I decided to give it a go.

This variety is a maincrop which can be sown from March to June for harvesting from late May to September and is said to have really good resistance to powdery mildew. This means that

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