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    How To Grow Peas - GF Video

    by Eric · This post may contain affiliate links, its one way we pay the bills. · 5 Comments

    I can show you how to grow peas because they are my favorite vegetable, bar none. So I made you a video about it, watch and let me know your thoughts.

    How to grow peas, what you need to know:

    Peas like cool weather, when the summer starts to heat up, they wilt quickly. So its key to get the seeds starting quick. You have two choices, seed directly in the garden, or start them in seed starting trays or pots. Both have advantages.

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    How To Grow Peas

    I now prefer to start pea seeds in pots and transplant them outside. I have found that the seeds germinate faster and better than seeding them directly. A big reason is that the soil outside is cold, and the seed starting mix is warm, because its inside. Took me awhile to figure that out. I also direct seed a bit when the weather starts to warm up, as a back up measure.

    Have the bottom of your trellis right where the plants are. Peas start to climb right away, or else they will fall over. You can set some small sticks alongside the plants to lead them to the trellis above, if need be.

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    I do not have any problems with insects or diseases with my peas. I mainly plant sugar snap peas and snow peas. Many of them don't make it out of the garden, we and the Labs eat them standing there in the garden.

    You can shade the pea plants to keep them growing a bit longer, but I have not had much success with this. Part of the problem is the trellis is quite high. There are some pea varieties that don't grow as tall, you could try those.

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    When the sugar snap peas start to fade, I plant string beans below the trellis, and leave the fading peas on the trellis. The beans will climb up and work just fine. This way you have used the trellis for two plants in one season. Nice.

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    1. sheryl bryant

      May 12, 2016 at 6:19 am

      last year I took paper towel, and toilet paper rolls, cut them, folded the bottoms, dirt, etc. , seeds, COMPOST TEA, that works really good. my seeds grew so fast , I couldn't believe it. this year I am using compost tea in my raised beds, and herbs. they also have sprouted quickly.

    2. Linda

      May 12, 2016 at 5:18 pm

      That was a good point about leaving the pea vines and the beans will use them to climb up! I will try this.

    3. Eric

      May 16, 2016 at 2:47 pm

      good to hear Linda, i just planted beans below the sugar snap peas. thx!

    4. Eric

      May 16, 2016 at 2:47 pm

      yes, compost tea is amazing stuff, good to hear its working for you. thx!

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    1. How to build a trellis for your vegetable garden - GF Video says:
      April 27, 2020 at 4:11 pm

      […] Watch as we build a trellis for our vegetable garden that uses recycled wood and twine. We grow peas, beans, & cucumbers on this simple trellis. Want to learn how to grow peas? It’s easy: Watch how we do it here. […]

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