Peas, Please

[Jared77]

Not here. We'll be lucky to break freezing for a few days before we plunge back into reality.

This is my first go round with them this year. I'm basing my planting schedule found the Ag Depts suggestions so we'll see.

I'm planting Laxton garden peas and Lincoln garden peas both from Baker Creek. Laxton is an early variety and Lincoln is more heat tolerant so trying them as a late variety.

 

[Ridgerunner]

@so lucky I'm probably going to do the same thing. I normally don't plant my green peas and other cool weather early spring stuff until from the end of February to mid March, whenever I get a spell when the ground is dry enough to work. But looking at the forecast and what I have now, I'll probably start doing that on Monday. If worst comes to worst, I replant.

I always grow Little Marvel green peas. They do well for me and I don't have to stake them. But I'm trying snap peas for the first time, Sugar Sprint, and I do plan to stake these. I'll probably drive a few T-posts and stretch some 3' high welded wire on them. See if that holds up to the wind.

 

[so lucky]

Oh, I have some chicken wire that's about 2 feet high. I could use that. Maybe raise it a little so the peas have to reach.

 

[Ridgerunner]

Chicken wire should work. The holes are big enough that the peas won't cut themselves in two if they grow in there. I've had tomatoes and cucumbers do that when the holes in the wire is too small.

I don't stake peas so I don't know how much you have to train them to grow on the trellis. Hopefully someone like @digitS' can help us out with how high to start the wire.

 

[digitS']

@so lucky , Sugar Ann should be able to handle the first 7" or 8" on her own. If it was Sugar Snaps, I'd say 9" or 10".

The "industry" should really work on their names! They can't all be "sugar" or "sweet," even if all garden peas are sweet ...

Anyway, the smooth-seed varieties are best for the earliest plantings. The University of Minnesota says that peas take 2 weeks to emerge in 50°f soil and over a month at 41°! The wrinkle-seed peas can rot. The wrinkling, we are told, is from sugar content.

Steve