Sugar Snap Peas 3-10-2010

Sugar Snap Peas 3-10-2010

by Farmer Dave
(Northern California)

Planting sugar snap peas

March Planting of sugar snap peas! This should give me some peas in mid June if all goes well.
I prepared my pea bed by digging out all the grasses in the bed and clearing the bed. Then I forked up the bed and put down a light layer of ashes as peas really like potash. I also put down a little compost and well broken down manure about 1/4 wheel barrow of each.
Then I turned in the nutrients and made some rows. My beds are 3 ft wide and 25 ft long, I planted 1/2 the bed now and will plant again in two weeks for a nice succession. I find that peas do really well planted thickly so I put 3 rows on each side of my trellis (which in this case I will put up later) I plant my seeds 1-2 inches apart in my rows. In most gardening books they do not suggest planting this thickly but I have been doing it for years and get some really lush thick pea trellises and they do great!

"Theirs more than one way to plant a seed"

Farmer Dave

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Sugar Snap Peas 3-10-2010

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Mar 15, 2010
soaking up your peas
by: Farmer Dave

Irene Great post on sprouting your peas, I like to sprout my peas first too especially my early plantings or when planting in unsettled weather. As you said they can easily rot if it is wet and cold and sprouting sure helps. I like to plant when there is just a tiny tale, I find it easier and more successful than planting once the seeds have long tails, but that works too.

"Plant a seed and watch it grow"
Farmer Dave

Mar 13, 2010
Pre-sprouting snap peas
by: ~ irene

Do you pre-sprout your peas before planting them? I always have and find that the started sprouts can take the days and days of rain we sometimes get in March without rotting, as pea seeds sometimes can.

I sprout them just as if I were making alfalfa sprouts for salads: soak the peas overnight in a clean quart jar with a (coarse) wire mesh lid, rinse well two or three times a day thereafter, always leaving the jar tipped up to keep it well drained. Within a few days there will be small sprouts emerging along with the new root.

On the day I'm going to plant them out I give them a last good rinse, then sprinkle a bit of the appropriate inoculant on the peas, shake the jar gently to distribute the powder, and they're ready to go in the ground.

I plant them as thickly as you do, but in succession, so that I have a longer harvest, which is much appreciated by our Flat-Coated Retriever whose favorite treat is a fresh snap pea pod!

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