Pea Seeds
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Green Arrow Pea Seeds
70 days to harvest. Produces a heavy yield of slim, straight pods packed with 9-11 small, deep green berries of exquisite taste.
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Little Marvel Pea Seeds
63 days to harvest. Unusually fine sweetness and flavor when picked young. This is an early one and developes its seeds quickly.
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Sugar Sprint Pea Seeds
62 days to harvest. Like Sugar Ann, Sugar Sprint produces early yields of delicious stringlespods that are very sweet and tender.
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How to Grow Peas
Tradition holds that you plant peas as soon as the soil can be worked, however peas actually germinate much more slowly in cold soil. And the colder the soil, the longer it takes to germinate, from 9 days at 60ºF (16°C) to 36 days at 40ºF (4°C) soil. Let the soil warm up a little, or use black plastic mulch to warm the soil, so the seeds spend less time in the cooler ground. Peas planted a little later catch up very quickly with those that were planted earlier in cool soil. You may hear that you needn't fertilize peas because they can get nitrogen from the air. This is almost correct. The truth is that the bacteria that provide peas with nitrogen don't do this trick at the drop of hat. It will take a few weeks before the plant actually gets any nitrogen from the bacteria, meanwhile the peas must get its nitrogen from the soil like any other plant. To help them along, when the seedlings are 2-4 inches tall, fertilize them lightly with a complete organic fertilizer. Like corn, peas are delightfully sweet if pick them at the right time, if not they turn starchy.
Sowing
Seed Depth: 1" (2.5 cm)
Germination soil temperature: 40-75º F (4-24ºC) Optimum is 75°F (24ºC)
Days to Germination: 14
Sow indoors: Not recommended
Sow outdoors: As soon as the soil can be worked or soil is close to 65ºF.
Growing
pH range: 6.0-7.0
Growing soil temperature: 60-65º F (16-18ºC)
Spacing in beds : 1" on a staggered pattern
Watering: Moderate until blossoming, then low
Light: Full sun for best yields, tolerates partial shade.
Nutrient requirements: N=low, P=low, K=low
Rotation considerations: Follow with kale
Good Companions: Carrot, celery, corn, cucumber, eggplant, parsley, radish, spinach, strawberry, sweet pepper.
Bad Companions: Onion
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