Should I try to spread these out, or leave them? I don't want to compost any, there's plenty of room to shift them. I'd planned to put the trellis in today or tomorrow.
I would cut some of them out(what is left in the ground will just hep add nutrients, you will get a good harvest with half of what you have. I say that, but I would probably leave them and see what happens but just as long as you trellis you should be good either way
Davekinney0u812
You might get a total of 25 pods off of each plant and about 7 peas per pod. You’d end up with a few pods each harvest & barely enough for a meal.
If I had room I would just plant more seeds and I wouldn’t thin. Peas are N fixers and not heavy feeders. I don’t think thinning what you have would net you more pods.
wildbergamont
I thin to the package directions
Unislash
Peas are meant to be clustered like this! If they are climbing peas, don’t thin this–it’s a perfectly happy section of peas along a trellis.
If this was all that germinated from a whole row and you were expecting more, I would just plant more seeds next to this bunch. Peas are commonly planted at staggered times to extend their harvest time; this is totally fine.
Note: planting instructions for climbing varieties of peas are generally to plant in a thick 4″ wide row that goes the length of your trellis. Throw a bunch of seeds in that row, aiming for about 2″ of space between seeds. The whole point of the wide row is to allow for planting plenty of seeds and to avoid a single file line of seedlings. They appreciate a little bunching!
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I would cut some of them out(what is left in the ground will just hep add nutrients, you will get a good harvest with half of what you have. I say that, but I would probably leave them and see what happens but just as long as you trellis you should be good either way
You might get a total of 25 pods off of each plant and about 7 peas per pod. You’d end up with a few pods each harvest & barely enough for a meal.
If I had room I would just plant more seeds and I wouldn’t thin. Peas are N fixers and not heavy feeders. I don’t think thinning what you have would net you more pods.
I thin to the package directions
Peas are meant to be clustered like this! If they are climbing peas, don’t thin this–it’s a perfectly happy section of peas along a trellis.
If this was all that germinated from a whole row and you were expecting more, I would just plant more seeds next to this bunch. Peas are commonly planted at staggered times to extend their harvest time; this is totally fine.
Note: planting instructions for climbing varieties of peas are generally to plant in a thick 4″ wide row that goes the length of your trellis. Throw a bunch of seeds in that row, aiming for about 2″ of space between seeds. The whole point of the wide row is to allow for planting plenty of seeds and to avoid a single file line of seedlings. They appreciate a little bunching!
I plant my peas one inch apart in a circle.