Good Morning Gardeners, Here's this week's video! Today we are talking about growing one of my favorite veggies! Peas are a great option for your backyard garden!!
Re: transplanting pea seedlings (and frankly any other tender vine crop), I’ve had decent success this year with starting them in Root Riot peat pods, and then once I see that first root emerge from the pod, transplanting them into actual soil. In fact, the peas were the only crop that didn’t have the slightest transplant shock (I’m still babying my cukes, sadly, sigh). It’s an added expense, sure, but it’s also $10 that allows you to speed up a 6 week process. I’m all about convenience. 😉 Also, I sprinkled granular inoculant into the peat pot hole and then put the (unsoaked) pea in the hole with it. Boom, happy peas a few days later.
I plant 3 seeds per peat pot and plant them mid April -zone 6 b. I peel the peat pot off at planting with no damage to roots . I train them up a small 3’ plastic fence with great results. Ty for all your videos !
Great information as always, Rick. 👍 Another option for deterring birds from pecking young plants is flash tape. I cut 10"-12" strips & tie them to garden stakes randomly placed near my young plants, so they're like flashy flags around the garden. Since I began doing this I have yet to lose a plant to pecking birds. Previous years the robins & flickers would pluck half of my young onions out of the ground almost daily. 🤬 But now they won't go near them, lol. Oh, and snap peas are all I grow any more, for exactly the reasons you mentioned.
I plant progressive 9 peas stays low enough I don't stake they have huge pods big peas and I get 3 harvest to freeze and eat fresh. Also raise sugar snap peas on a fence to freeze and eat fresh.
Thanks for this video! I have planted 10 dwarf bush type English pea plants and have tiny seedlings so far in 3 growbags. I read somewhere that peas don't like a lot of fertilization, so I only fertilized with some half strength Espoma Garden Tone and a little compost mixed into the potting mix in the grow bag. Is this right? (I didn't innoculate the seeds) Or do you recommend full fertilization like other veggies? Thanks!
I live in SE Arizona, Zone 8B, and my peas are already up and producing. In fact, I've had several meals from them already. So, although I loved watching this video, it's a little late for me. I do have a question though.......I would like to grow them again in the fall. When would be a good time to start them since we have such hot summers? Would this be a good time to start them indoors?
So jealous! But I know you will pay for it later with those hot summers. You want to start them about 4 weeks before you plan on putting them out in the garden. Target the time of year when your temperatures drop back below 80.
Good Morning Gardeners, Here's this week's video! Today we are talking about growing one of my favorite veggies! Peas are a great option for your backyard garden!!
Re: transplanting pea seedlings (and frankly any other tender vine crop), I’ve had decent success this year with starting them in Root Riot peat pods, and then once I see that first root emerge from the pod, transplanting them into actual soil. In fact, the peas were the only crop that didn’t have the slightest transplant shock (I’m still babying my cukes, sadly, sigh).
It’s an added expense, sure, but it’s also $10 that allows you to speed up a 6 week process. I’m all about convenience. 😉
Also, I sprinkled granular inoculant into the peat pot hole and then put the (unsoaked) pea in the hole with it. Boom, happy peas a few days later.
Thanks I will have to look into those. Will the pots breakdown if you just leave the transplants in the and move them to the garden?
I plant 3 seeds per peat pot and plant them mid April -zone 6 b. I peel the peat pot off at planting with no damage to roots . I train them up a small 3’ plastic fence with great results. Ty for all your videos !
Great tip!
Great information as always, Rick. 👍
Another option for deterring birds from pecking young plants is flash tape. I cut 10"-12" strips & tie them to garden stakes randomly placed near my young plants, so they're like flashy flags around the garden. Since I began doing this I have yet to lose a plant to pecking birds. Previous years the robins & flickers would pluck half of my young onions out of the ground almost daily. 🤬
But now they won't go near them, lol.
Oh, and snap peas are all I grow any more, for exactly the reasons you mentioned.
Thank you for the tips
You're welcome
Gong to plant my peas today!
I'm late as always starting my peas but they'll give me decent harvest I hope.
I'm sure you will be fine, planting dates are pretty flexible.
Same. I could have put mine in 3 weeks ago but needed more soil. Oops
Awesome data!
Glad it was helpful!
I love growing english peas. Kinda sad though my summers are a little too hot for them.
Can you get them in during the spring? Ours are usually done by mid June.
@@StoneyAcresGardening If I plant them this week we can get a good crop, been distracted with some many other things.
I plant progressive 9 peas stays low enough I don't stake they have huge pods big peas and I get 3 harvest to freeze and eat fresh. Also raise sugar snap peas on a fence to freeze and eat fresh.
Awesome, I've never heard of Progressive 9, I will have to look them up.
Thanks for this video! I have planted 10 dwarf bush type English pea plants and have tiny seedlings so far in 3 growbags. I read somewhere that peas don't like a lot of fertilization, so I only fertilized with some half strength Espoma Garden Tone and a little compost mixed into the potting mix in the grow bag. Is this right? (I didn't innoculate the seeds) Or do you recommend full fertilization like other veggies? Thanks!
I'm not a big fan of fertilizer. Peas don't need it. My thoughts are give your veggies healthy soil and they will do great without fertilizer.
Yep. I made the mistake of fertilizing my over wintered peas in Jan and they immediately went ‘uhm, no thanks’.
I live in SE Arizona, Zone 8B, and my peas are already up and producing. In fact, I've had several meals from them already. So, although I loved watching this video, it's a little late for me. I do have a question though.......I would like to grow them again in the fall. When would be a good time to start them since we have such hot summers? Would this be a good time to start them indoors?
So jealous! But I know you will pay for it later with those hot summers. You want to start them about 4 weeks before you plan on putting them out in the garden. Target the time of year when your temperatures drop back below 80.
@@StoneyAcresGardening Great! Thank you Rick!
What was that little green tool that you showed with pea starts that looks like it's for transplanting?
It's called a dibble tool. A popsicle stick works just as well :)
@@justsayin5609 thank you.
My peas were 3 feet tall and still they snapped the top of the peas. Any idea what I can do? Bird net?
You end a microphone. I have to turn up my volume more than normal.
Thanks I will look at that the next time I edit a video and turn it up a bit.