How to grow your own peas at home featuring my two favourite methods. Get your copy of How to Grow Food: https://geni.us/HowToGrowFood
Top varieties:
Alderman (Tall)
Telephone (Tall)
Llanover (Medium Height)
Hurst Greenshaft (Medium Height)
Meteor (Dwarf)
Oregaon Sugar Pod (Mangetout)
Nairobi (Sugar snap)
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Great Informative video Captain, just like always looking forward to the next one. Wonderful growing and harvesting season to everyone, We got this! Im already ahead with so much seedlings going. The season should be definitely bountiful!
Thank you! I’ve been sewing scrawny for years, so I am definitely going to try this method. My dog loves pea pods, so she’s going to be very happy to have a beautiful crop to eat this year with me!
Great video Huw. I love these kind of videos.
Great video! I wish I had the money to buy your book
Thank you. I am guilty of following the package directions and ending up with thin harvest
Lol..I was thinking the same (re "it's only been 3 days") regarding recent plantings. Just a few days later..trays of green!
I'm sure you recommended Oregon Sugar pods a few years back… I dont ever want to grow any others as they are AMAZING! cheers.
I’ve been gardening for years and this will be the first time growing peas. Just never got around to them. Really looking forward to my first harvest.
😊Wonderful reminder! Waiting for the new book to be delivered. Look forward to the day!
Do you succession sow with peas or will these last afew months?
If you do not shell the peas how do you sift out the ones with maggots in them? The bane of pea growing.
Seeds are silly expensive for what they are. To get a supermarket frozen bag of peas takes a lot.
Interesting you sow all in containers. Normal old days was seed sprinkled into a wide shallow trench directly in the ground.
So timely. Was gonna sow my mange tout this weekend!
Got the book yesterday looking forward to a great read.
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Hi – Would you share where we might purchase you seed starting container? It looks very sturdy unlike some I have bought. Thanks so much. PS I live in Oregon and am very proud of the Oregon Sugar Pod Peas 🙂
This seems like a lot of trouble and takes time.
I plant my peas in a 3 shallow parallel trenches directly into the ground at the end of October. Each pea seed is about 2cm apart. They germinate and then grow through the winter into spring. I re-seed any places where they didn't germinate after 2 weeks. By February they are often over 2 metres tall. I use a vertical net for support. They will suffer slight frost damage but recover quickly. As long as their support is strong they will usually be OK in snow as long as it isn't too heavy. I get massive crops and my freezer is often full of peas. Save a few late pods for next years seed.
That is a nice pen. Where do you get them?
I have always sown my pea seeds separately, although only two or three inches apart…multi-sowing will be my new process beginning now, because I can never have too many peas! 😊
I have been planting up the a border at my new place ( in Central France ) and noticed peas coming up. I have been feeding the birds so thought maybe there were peas in it too. If so, any idea what variety they could be?
5:29 maybe I'm dumb but I cannot find the varieties in the description, only the link to the new book
Brilliant video 👌🏽my favourite as well is suger pod peas 🫛 I like to use toilet rolls as pots I multi sow 3-4 peas per toilet roll get some mega harvest
I use toilet roll tubes, the wee compostable cups and instant soup boxes. I avoid module trays if I can.
A week ago, indoors I planted a mixture (labeled) of peas, french and runner beans. Oregon, Red Emperor, Hurst and a few others I cant remember. They're doing ok.
I forgot about suga snap and mange tout, thanks for the timely reminder.
As a wee experiment I soaked, sprouted and planted Batchelors "Bigga" dried peas that I'd had in the back of the cupboard since the stone age.
You know the one's, rock solid and great for catapult ammo or, if you really have to be an adult, for soup and stews?
Those are going absolutely gangbusters!!!
Thanks for the video. 👍
Huw has learned about thirst traps with the slo mo hands 😁😁
In Candaa the tall telephone and alderman are considered the same variety, not that easy to find. I've been trying to find tall growing peas and besides the alderman there is champion of england heritage seed which I can get from Manitoba, but that is all. Any recommedations please? I do better with shelling peas than sugar snaps etc. I think pea breeding is dominated by the frozen pea industry, not surprisingly. Fresh peas are sublime.
Love the videos, bought the book. Thanks for the inspiration! Cheers from the Netherlands 🌱
Looking forward to your book! Only a couple of weeks to go now! Thank you! 🙏💚🌿
I will be applying the multi-sowing method this weekend! Thank you 😊
For small gardens/balcony I recomend 'De Grace' ( sugarsnap). Only 60cm/2ft. Nice and fast for my greenhouse in march. Ready to pull out when hight tomatoes and sweet pepper takes over in may. ( im like 100 km west of Stockholm , Sweden so little more cold than Wales I suppose)
Perfect timing! Thank you soooo much!
I've grown peas for a few years and looking forward to trying your method.
Dear Huw – a hint for you. Instead of pushing into each module individually, fill the tray, and use an identical tray to gently press the mix. Quick and easy. BTW, why not just sow direct into the garden – which is what I do?
I like to grow the telephone pea, because im in my mid 60s, and the climbing peas are easier on my back and knees.Since I don't yet have a greenhouse, they will again go directly into the garden. Here in northern Ohio I plant them mid March. Also the turnips, beets radishs, and cool weather greens. I am SO EXCITED to get out there to play in the dirt again. It's been a too long, cold winter. Thanks for sharing Huw.
Thank you for another great video.
Could you grow peas in buckets.thanks for your time and help 👍👍👍
Why not plant direct into the garden ?
Fresh peas are so darn tasty that not very many of the peas I grow make it into the house. I grow sugar snap peas.
#peasofpotential
Wow I love peas! can't believe I have been growing them wrong, actually less effective! Can't wait to get your book, ordered it a long time ago, excited, I also love the Oregon peas too! Thanks so much for this great teaching video!
Huw, do you see a benefit in soaking the peas before planting?
How long are peas in module trays before they are planted out..thanks
I’ve not been successful in pea growing in my veg garden as something always eats the seedlings but I’ve now got an allotment. I was hoping to sow directly but maybe I’ll get them started in the greenhouse before taking them to the allotment
Thank you I am guilty doing the two peas up until now 🫛🫛
Just got my copy of the book yesterday
I already did peas last year and regret not sowing more densely
Also they were clinging to anything they could 😂including the nearest broad beans. My tepee was 5 sticks with string, maybe that was the issue
I got now some growing in the greenhouse in a mushroom tray and inside a plastic box to prevent my rodent friends coming at night. I open it during sun hours
Looking forward to tuck into the book on Saturday evening. I think the chapter where you explain how to calculate how many plants to grow could be the best of all
And of course the yummy recipes for sure
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I am doing this for the first time this year. I normally direct sow the sugar snap peas in the raised bed the first week of March, but for the past two years we had a cold & wet period after the peas were planted. Because of that germination was delayed, and many of the seeds rotted in the garden. Both years I had to re-sow the peas to get a growth which resulted in a delayed and smaller harvest. This year I planted the seeds in module trays in the greenhouse, and they should be sprouting next week. I'm hoping the transplanting of them in the raised bed goes well.