garden:about:plants:peas
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+ | ===== Fall peas ===== | ||
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+ | Our spring 2014 crop of shelling peas was not nearly as good as last year' | ||
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+ | We have t-posts and fencing from the spring so we are using the same area. We know that peas are a cool-weather crop, yet we read about planting in warm weather and harvesting before the first killing frost. | ||
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+ | ==== Challenges ==== | ||
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+ | There is one challenge of getting the peas to grow in the hot weather. Unlike a lot of veggies, peas grow more slowly with heat. And getting them to put on pods means keeping them as cool as we can. Knowing there are challenges we are pulling out all the stops to make this crop more successful than the previous one. | ||
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+ | We added compost from our most cured bin, then a no-nitrozen fertilizer (lime, phosphate and kelp meal). We watered these in and let them cook for several weeks in our unusual sunny July. I gave the weeds a chance to sprout (surprisingly, | ||
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+ | I've read that fall peas can be even sweeter than spring peas because in the fall the weather is cooler during the time the peas are ripening. We'll see how they grow and how they taste in about 90 days. | ||
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+ | ==== After 5 days ==== | ||
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+ | ==== After 16 days ==== | ||
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+ | ==== After 27 days ==== | ||
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+ | ==== After 30 days ==== | ||
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+ | ==== After 35 days ==== | ||
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+ | ==== After 45 days ==== | ||
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+ | ==== After 52 days ==== | ||
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+ | ==== After 54 days ==== | ||
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+ | ==== Fall peas gallery ==== | ||
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+ | You can [[garden: |
garden/about/plants/peas.txt · Last modified: 2018/12/30 23:38 by davidbac