Growing Peas From Sowing to Harvest 💚
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Nutritious, delicious and oh, so ap-PEA-ling! Peas are the must-have vegetable for any gardener's patch.
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I usually don't like eating peas but I planted them anyway for stews. I am so excited about how lush and happy they are - and growing so fast. Never thought I'd be so excited to eat some peas.
Spoken like a true gardener - good on you!
I'll be growing some this year. 😂😂😂😂
One of the biggest memories from my childhood, fields of garden peas in our collective farms in village, me , sister and friends munching on the peas and collecting some for home. Some times dad will bring it for the cows, but before he will give it to them I’ll make nests out of garden pea plant, I’ll seat inside it collecting some of the peas and enjoy the sunshine. What a childhood we had😍
Thank you , you are so much clearer than other TH-camrs as you state WHEN to grow , when to Harvvest and loads of other great tips . Thank you for covering EVERYTHING I need in one short video ☺ your little friend snuggling up to you was a bonus 🤗🐶🌻
So pleased this video has been helpful. :-)
So excited just started gardening and my pea plants are looking great, cant wait for the fruit!
Thank you for excellent advice, again lovely to see your beautiful dog helping.
You are one of the best in my book
Always packed with useful info--thank you!
I just planted peas for the firs time. My wife, son and I don't love them but I wanted to try them. We'll use them in stir fry cookings. Nice video.
Zone 10a,10b we love them.Well done
Thank you Ben! Love your vids. Chock full of great info.
I am growing "Corne de Bellier" for the 2nd year now. I love it for the double usage as sugar snaps as well as for fully swollen pods. And I keep underestimating the enormius height of 2 meter, so again my trellis is to low and the plants flap over. Delicious at any state!
Thanks for this video Ben and it's going to be helpful because I do plan to grow my own peas.
Thanks Ben appreciate your advise given my peas ready now to go out 👍
The first time I've seen purple peas...they're gorgeous! I promptly bought some online for this fall's planting!
They are stunners aren't they!
I love peas! Just sown mine!!
I grow Hurst Green shaft successionally. The trick is to make the 1st planting at the North side (in the Northern hemisphere), then the next more to the South and so on. I aim to get 3 months of harvest this way.
FIRST 13 peas. Fave
I live in Alberta, Canada, so I sew green arrow. They are amazing! Love your video’s and find them soooo helpful! Thanks so much!
Thanks for watching Shelley.
I like Kelvedon wonder.
I've never tried them before but have a pack of seeds ready for next year for my allotment. Hopefully I can get a bumper crop!
We love the super sugar snap peas. Its like candy from the garden. My kids and I love eating them fresh from the vine while enjoying time outdoors.
This channel is superb, this is the first year I’ve grown peas and so far so good 🤞 they’ll survive if this rain and wind stops
Same here!
Some of my earliest memories were opening pods and eating fresh peas with dad from the garden, love em!
Beautiful aren't they!
Great information for me growing pea's... Thanks
Hello Ben, thank you for a nother great Video. I grow garden peas in the raised bed and snap peas in windowbox Containers again this year. This is great when there is only little space. I hang them on the side of the raised bed. My beds are 80 cm to 1 m high, and I stick cutoffs from blackberries in the side of the raised bed for the peas to grow on. The only thing to think off when growing peas in windowboxes is, they need a lot more water and feeding since they only have a little bit of earth to grow in. But its a great way for little spaces and you still get a lot of peas. Have a wonderful Weekend. Greetings from the very rainy Münsterland. 🙋🏼♀️🙂
Thanks for sharing those experiences Marie. Have a wonderful weekend too - happy gardening!
I like ur cute doggy I am growing peas and it’s usually 90-80 here right now and they r still doing very well:)
Wow - they're doing well in that heat!
Thank you, this was great! I live in Maryland and have been gardening more, you shared wonderful tips.
So pleased to hear that Trish. :-)
My favourite is Kelvedon wonder 😋
Thank you, great video. So they are grown, now to create a nice recipe, cheers, Bren😍
You're very welcome. :-)
Great information! Thank you!
I’m from Lancashire and black/Carlin peas with salt and vinegar are amazing in the dark nights they remind me of old days with my Nan around a fire . I’m desperate to grow these and have ordered some dry ones on Amazon so really hoping I manage it so we can have homegrown black peas when the summer is over ❤️
I hope they grow well for you Siobhan.
We live in Loftus a small town in North Yorkshire and we had “Carlin Sunday “ dad used to fry them in fat that bacon had been fried in . Salt and vinegar and wow those were the days… you don’t really hear of it now it’s sad.
I love peas I think I’ll be able to harvest them today we have been waiting and waiting lol.
Great to be harvesting them already!
Thank you so much for this awesome video...
Enjoyable video, as always, Thanks from Australia,
Thanks for watching Vivienne. :-)
Hi. Shout out from South Africa, I'm growing snow peas, they growing very well, just weeks to harvest. Thanks for always sharing your garden tips
You're very welcome. Delighted to hear your snow peas are doing so well. :-)
Thank you for the video.
Thanks you are in the know about all
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Good production of the video! Love GrowVeg as a resource!
Thanks so much for watching. :-)
Thank you
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Спасибо за поддержку. Удачного садоводства!
Excellent presentation!
Hello thank you for all your information my favorite variety to grow is sweetsalome.
I've been trying to protect my peas from the wind these past two days. Today I've loosely tied them to canes with a sort length of string, leaving them space to move.
great advice!😊
Nice one.
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Thank you so much - it's a real joy to have you watch too. :)
As you are probably aware by now, I'm a big fan of SFG in raised beds.
due to the constraints of a square foot, I have found a dwarf habit variety of pea suited to SFG.
Half Pint; this plant grows only 8" or 20cm tall, plant four per square foot, succession grow between four raised beds. No staking required.
Too many peas to eat fresh, blanching and freezing is on my calendar yet again.
Keep the vids coming Ben, I found your channel earlier this year and I'm currently binge watching each evening.
That's a great recommendation, thank you. Glad you're binge watching - hope you're all set for the growing season! :-)
Dude, that video was amazing! You just got yourself a new subscriber!
Nice one Darron - a very warm welcome to you!
Love to see the use of the cradle, I recycled the frames of our cot for runner beans + tied a piece of string about 4ft apart, they climbed and I encouraged growth along the string, great produce results + visually impressive against a grey boring wall, this is a fantastic channel!
What a great idea!
Such a helpful video thx. Only today I managed to plant out sweet peas n green n broad beans(I know I'm late on the last ones but thought I'd try them out as never grown b4🙈) but needed to mug on peas as new to them as well. They're looking good in the cold frame too n now, thx to u,I know exactly what to do with them . My daughter is too old to fit on her childhood swing now so I cover it with string netting and grow all my climbers upp it.. Pretty handy😁 Great video👏
What an ingenious way to reuse the swing!
Not much choice of pea varieties here in Malaysia. I got Super Sweet Pea seeds last week and sow them together with Romano bean. This is my 1st try with beans. Winged bean and french bean seedlings are about a months old now.
Great video thank you. I'm waiting for my sugar snap seeds to arrive in the mail. Just built my DIY trellis today. Looking forward to the little journey :)
You've got a fab journey ahead - enjoy!
You sir earned a new sub! great video well explained thank you for this!😃
Thank you so much. A very warm welcome to the channel!
Great info vid, Ben.
I am growing Show Perfection, Hurst Greenshaft, Ne Plus Ultra, and Kelvedon Wonder for podding peas this year plus some sugar snaps as well -- yes, I like peas LOL
Top man - you can never have enough peas to be fair!
Mid Autumn here in Australia. I’ve just planted peas, carrots, garlic, cauliflower, broccoli and spinach. Interesting times ahead.
Great to get all that in the ground - some delicious crops there.
My grandpa used to grow them, so my grandma could make her famous Friesian peasoup in the winter. Im thinking of planting peas coming spring as well. My dad said its a lot of work, especially harvesting and drying them, but the peasoup will taste so much better than if we make it with peas from the supermarket.. 👌
Garden, grown, always tastes best!
Add a handful of green peas when making rice. Delicy!
Nice!
Love it
I am trying to plant peas 1 week ago.
We start our peas using the gutter method to avoid loss from voles. When using saved seeds from last year I pre-germinate them on moist paper towel in re-purposed take out food boxes. This assures high growth rates and gives us a jump start in zone 4.
That's a great idea!
Hi Ben more video's yes peas .
Haha - very good Graeme, very good!
Thank you. I subscribed.
Thanks for subscribing. A very warm welcome to the channel! :-)
First ever try peas. Gardenshaft variety hope will be ok.
love fresh peas 😋 sure my little one will too.
Hope they grow well for you - enjoy!
I grow lots of peas on my allotment every year. I don't think I've ever managed to get any home - and I hide all the empty pods in the compost heap.
Haha - that's a common situation there Pam, I wouldn't worry!
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I hear you lol.......there's nothing like going out, every morning to "check everything", and returning back to the house having eaten your breakfast of strawberries, peas and spinach 😐
sneaky
My dogs used to steal them till we caught him at it.
Been growing peas since my uncle learned me when I was young. I'm now 29 and I've learned my children how to grow them. I use ash from bbq and fires seems to do the plants wonders
That's really great to hear - so satisfying to be able to pass on knowledge like that.
@@GrowVeg thank you for kind reply. Have a great year all the best to you and your family.
Just a little too.
Since your uncle taught you I think you mean.
The teacher teaches the student learns. No one can learn you or learn for you.
Sorry it’s not a growing tip.
Thank you for sharing your story though. It’s great when family teaches you and then in turn you teach your family. Excellent!
@@annefricker8474 For someone concerned with correctness I have to point out it’s impolite to correct someone -especially publicly. Your comment wasn’t necessary-and neither is this one. Again, just let it go, we all understand what they were saying. You don’t know what cultural background they came from. My grandmother came from Czechoslovakia and would always get her feelings hurt when us kids would correct her English. Please be thoughtful of other people.
Even the thick-pods of the ordinary garden pea can be eaten, and it is delicious!
All you have to do is to 'break' the pod inwards, and the strip off the pargement-like inner layer, that cant be eaten, but the pods themself _can_!
Pea shoots are absolutely tasty. They can be eaten in salads or sautéed. I grow peas for pods and shelling and I also grow peas for shoots. And I am talking about pea shoots from mature plants.
That's a good idea - it's never occurred to me to just harvest them from mature plants!
Growing wonder peas and ambassador peas this year (along with two types of ornamental sweet peas). Just coming into harvest now! And a second set of both types just starting to grow their tendrils. It's been a slow start this year, (bad spring weather and cold nights) but it's been boiling for weeks here in Wales now. Water butts have spent more time empty than full!
I know the feeling! Grateful for recent rain and hope you're getting some also.
I have been inspired by your bean supports. Despite my spritely age I ache more than I would like so I find ways to make things easier. I have 30L pots with metal mesh held outwards in a V shape, lashed onto bamboo for support. Most of the pods shall be dangling freely and I can keep on top of them better.
Thanks for your channel.
What a great idea. Sounds superb! :-)
@@GrowVegI took your advice of starting them in smaller pots then transferred the plants once at a decent size. I will update you later in the year on this comment.
Don't be offended when I say you are the river cottage of gardening. You are not intrusive with intros, relaxing to watch and your enthusiasm is infectious.
May the algorithms be forever in your favour. ☮️
I think my issue was starting them in my greenhouse and then replanting. However, I wasn't that gentle with the roots and I think that's the problem! I'm going to sow directly into the ground so as not to disturb them. Thank you!! We've had very mild, wet weather here in Texas and I think they will do fine before it gets too hot.
Yes, sow them when it's cool. Sowing direct works well too a lot of the time.
I am growing Little Marvel (some in a recycled polystyrene box in the greenhouse, and some straight into the veg plot). The height of Little Marvel helps given our general tendency to windy weather in Orkney. And I'm trying Oregon Snow Pod this year as an experiment in the veg plot.
I bet you get some formidable winds up in Orkney!
@@GrowVeg can you tell which peas variety is considered the most tasty and rich in flavor..?? I heard progress no 9 is nice option but i want to know from you as an expert
I used the gutter sowing method for my first batch of peas and had some issues. I let the peas get too big, about 15 centimetres tall before planting. I didn't provide a support for them to climb and so they tangled into each other. Also I think their roots tangled together as well. They are flowering now and producing pods, but the leaves look yellowed. I think the roots aren't going deep into the ground. I planted two other batches directly outside and will be doing so in the future. Considering how hardy peas are, I don't think I'd bother with transplanting anymore.
Great video as usual... have always grown Kelvendon wonder, always reliable, but this year ( I forgot to buy them if I'm honest) I'm trying meteor.
I think you'll enjoy Meteor too. Good luck with them.
Growing snow peas for the first time.😊 not much yield because not enough sun. But I will try again this fall in a spot with 6-8 hrs of sun.
Hope you get a good crop when you do try them again. :-)
Love your videos Ben. I have an allotment and my peas this year have been disastrous! The first ones didn’t germinate, the second lot I started off in the greenhouse and about half didn’t make it. The third lot I showed straight into the ground and don’t look very hopeful either. I love peas and could cry. I grow mainly sugar snap and a few mangetout. Today after watching your video I am sowing some in some guttering. Yesterday when I checked my allotment, the few peas that have decided to grow have now been attacked by pigeons, so have now been covered with fleece. One way or another I will have some peas! The weather has been foul and we have just had two days of gales. 😬
Hang on in there Vanessa. Warmer, calmer weather looks to be on the way. My Tomatoes have turned purple (the leaves) in the cold, so we really need something warmer. But it's coming I'm sure!
Alabama weather is kinda tricky but I was able to grow peas this spring. Only problem I had was the support wasn't strong enough. My bad and lesson learned. I'm looking forward to trying a fall planting. Thanks for the tips. They were great.
My fall peas always do better than my spring. We seem go straight from winter to summer and skip spring 😔
I hope your fall peas are a big success for you Lynn.
I had a huge custom bay window installed in my kitchen. It faces south. I have a Zone 4 growing season, we live ontop a mountain in Northern Pennsylvania. I also recently am disabled, unable to go into the sun or exert much muscle energy. With that said, I started an indoor garden, with aid from grow lamps in this window. The sun only shines about 8 hours a day in winter, we need the grow lamps to lengthen the ‘sun shine’ to about 14 hours. I have long benches and pots outside, near the house, next to the hose. This way I can tend to plants wearing jeans, long shirt, and hat, and without needing to bend over much. Right now my indoor peas, which have only started to grow, look like porcupines. I had to add chopsticks and bamboo skewers all around my plants to keep the cat out. Lol. They are growing slower than expected, I will be adding more strips of grow lights, which will add warmth and brighter lighting. This may help. I like this method of gardening, zero bugs. The last frost is May 15th, and then I can move the plants outside onto my benches, then start new seedlings in the house again. Yes, I plan on dehydrating all my veggies, storing them in cans in my basement. I have a long container of alpine strawberries, 150 days old. We will transplant them outside, into the ground, my husband will create a ‘cage’ for them to keep wild animals out. I love dehydrated strawberries, they are fun to munch on. 😃
I bet those dehydrated strawberries are like candy!
I have never tried dehydrating strawberries before. Usually, I use the food dryer for wild mushrooms, and once for watermelon - but I will give the strawbs a go this year. Sounds good.
I've read so much about how 'Hurst Green Shaft' is THE staple to go to, but in the three years I've tried, it never did anything...'Sugar Snap' is the reliable one for me.
I like the taste of Kelvadon wonder
I tried peas for the first time early in 2022 and my peas are flowerin with pods about as long as my finger and btw they are the garden pea variety
So pleased they are growing well for you.
I grow peas in my yard but I don't know what variety. I just keep some every year and sow with them the next year. Average pod size is about 4inches. Mostly, 7-8 peas per pod. I like to pick before they get too big and woody unless they are for next years seed. I live in Las Vegas, NV; zone 9a. I have 2 growing seasons due to the oppressive heat in summer.
Great that you can squeeze in two pea crops - I guess you have to sow very early in the year to get them out before it turns hot, then again in the fall.
I grow purple hull peas and zipper cream peas
Pea 'Meteor' very hardy dwarf sown in the UK Febuary and are ready now end of May even though April was more like January.
Great recommendation - that's a very solid variety.
my biggest problem with growing peas is mice. As soon as the peas germinate the mice/voles hunt them out. They do it with direct sowing and even in the cold frame. The only way I can get them going safely in on greenhouse staging which is a pain if I want to plant out a decent amount. Then unless they are plated out with protection the pigeons get them.
The best product for powdery mildew is mycostop. It's natural.
The first time I planted peas I tried green arrow. It took so long to harvest but it was amazing! Sweet and fun. I have tried to grow peas again about 6x+ but plants always get pm before harvestable size. I have tried little marvel, super sugar snap, sugar daddy, oregon giant, lincoln, liliana’s caseload, etc in different parts of my garden, in raised beds and containers. I am afraid to spray fungicide. I will keep trying and experimenting. Maybe there’s a perfect weather temp, maybe I’ll get it right again. - Zee (N. Cali zone10a)
They do like it a little cooler it has to be said.
I was a little surprised with how easy they are to sproat, almost had too many plants this year.
They're a great veggie to grow for this reason. :-)
useful
I have a few varieties of peas, Jaguar and Lord Leicester included - plus one type I saved from some fresh pod peas I bought in a supermarket (liked the taste, so carefully dried out a few, not expecting it to work. But, amazingly, it did and I've carried on growing this type to this day).
I have tons and tons of mice rampaging through my garden, so I have to plant my peas in pots until I'm sure the 'seed pea' has well and truly grown out, and then plant them in containers, often raised up off the ground (because the mice here are really accomplished climbers and leapers).
Although we also have a lot of pigeons in the area, no one feeds birds around here, so they won't stay where there isn't a daily supply of food, remain very shy of humans, and are more likely to keep well away from houses and frequented vegetable plots.
I still feed the smaller song-birds I 'do' want - by planting a few well-chosen berry bushes to one side of the garden. Pigeons are too heavy and clumsy to perch in them, and so - without regular food - they go away in search of easier fare.
Well done for battling the mice - they sound a total nightmare!
When you shave off the pea shoots in the mushroom tray so early on in the process, do the pea plants eventually produce pods as well? That would be a fabulous win-win situation!
The pea shoots usually re-sprout and grow on, at which point you could plant them to grow them into the ground to produce pods, yes.
@@GrowVeg Thank you for this invaluable information.
This was really helpful, thank you. But I have a very important question: what is the name of the cute doggie and can we see more videos of the cute doggie please.
Haha - yes - she's quite cute! She's called Rosie.
@@GrowVeg Rosie, our gardening queen, showing us how it's done! Thank you and please tell her the internet loves her.
She is so well behaved! My dog always tries to snatch a leaf off my plants while I'm tending them lol
Can you tell me how/when to harvest the shoots without interfering with the fruiting process. I have a raised bed in zone 6b and they're just starting to throw out tendrils. These are regular green peas. I started them in the raised bed. Thank you!
You cut pea shoots once the shoots reach about 4-6 inches in height. Cut them down to just above a lower set of leaves. They should then re-sprout, and then these should be left alone to grow on.
I love snap or marrowfat peas ... and juice the shell.
Juice the shell? Interesting!
@@GrowVeg Mix it in with your other greens in your green juice.
What soil do we use ?
I've got lots of little peas shooting up out of my pea straw mulch everywhere, so I've planted a bunch in a spare long rectangular garden pot to see what they produce. If it doesn't work I'll just dig them back into the soil as a green compost. At least that's the plan 🤔😏
Sounds like a fun experiment Joanne. Good luck with it!
I grow magnolia blossom variety :)
After many years of gardening I only grow stringless varieties of snap peas, once in a while snow peas. Shelling pod peas is just too much work & they seem more susceptible to those pesky little worms, and aphids & powdery mildew. If I want full-sized peas I'll simply let my snap peas bulk up. I've done pole peas before but found I prefer bush varieties. For support I use tomato cages(which I don't use for tomatoes at all, lol). Oh, and successive planting is a must with peas. I direct sow in early Spring, then keep sowing batches every 3-4 weeks until late Fall.
Oh, and picking peas is always fun. It's literally like a real life, tasty version of "Where's Waldo?" Just when you think you've found them all...nope...you missed a bunch of them. 🤣
Haha - I love that comparison Jeff!
Loved this video. Can you tell me more about using a mushroom box to prevent mouse and pigeon depradation. I have fish boxes I could use. But how does the compost stay in the box, please?
Hi Sarah. Just growing peas under cover will help to reduce pigeon and mouse damage - assuming they can't get in and at your seeds/seedlings. The mushroom box is simply lined before filling with your potting mix. I used very thin/fine weed cloth/hanging basket liner for this. Thinking about it though, you could just as easily and successfully use a few sheets of newspaper for this, no problem.
G’day mate I have so many peas growing at the moment and how amazing are they???? Taste so sweet and delicious :)
They are totally A-W-E-S-O-M-E!!
The biggest danger to my pea seedlings is one of our cats-she likes to eat any small plants! Trying to grow them in seed pods leaves them open for her to help herself when we’re not looking-and as I’m only realizing this year, they would get super leggy, even in a south-facing window.
This year I have the same peas in a gallon milk jug, and they look so much better! They’re maybe 4-5” high, have several sets of leaves, are staying upright on their own, AND Miss Kitty cannot snack on them 😹
Smart move! :-)