In this video, I share 5 garden secrets that will help you grow more peas! Peas are the perfect plant for beginner gardeners, but there are a few things you should know first before you grow peas for the first time. These pea growing tips and tricks will ensure a great pea harvest! If you’re looking for tips on growing peas, look no further!
This video on growing peas includes growing English peas, snow peas and snap peas. It includes a full schedule on when to grow peas, including planting peas in spring and planting peas in fall. See the timestamps below for the schedule.
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
0:00 Intro To Growing Pea Plants
0:34 Tip #1: Growing Peas From Seed
1:25 Tip #2: Pea Planting Schedule
4:45 Tip #3: How To Plant Peas
6:37 Tip #4: Fertilizing Pea Plants
10:25 Tip #5: Thinning Pea Plants
13:20 Adventures With Dale
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0:00 Intro To Growing Pea Plants
0:34 Tip #1: Growing Peas From Seed
1:25 Tip #2: Pea Planting Schedule
4:45 Tip #3: How To Plant Peas
6:37 Tip #4: Fertilizing Pea Plants
10:25 Tip #5: Thinning Pea Plants
13:20 Adventures With Dale
Bro your channel is 🔥
I just shoveled the snow from where I want to plant my snap peas next week. Can you tell I'm sick and tired of long ass winters? New England takes forever to get warm, I forget what weekend Summer is.
Nice video again! it's actually not necessary to thin pea seedlings. I always multi-sow 2-3 seeds together. Charles Dowding did the same in his pea video. https://youtu.be/vRVSNYTVLRs
How do you deal with wet and windy mild spring and autumn?
What do you consider a “hot” summer? I’m in southwest Idaho where temps can reach 100 on occasion
You are very nice and inspiring me to do better
Thanks for the great tips! Your videos are always concise, interesting and very informative. I learn something on every one that I watch. As for eating pea shoots, they are Amazing!! I put them on my egg salad sammies!
I Love growing peas! The kids love to run to the garden and pull em right off for some garden snacks! Great video! Blessings and namaste family
0:52 I save my seeds every year. Soak them in warm water and throw them on my plot(quite large). Then I throw on a bit of compost and off they go!
been planting peas since the 60s never seen them planted that far apart, I plant mine an inch apart in a role then add a fence after they are two inches high for them to climb up on. I never thin them I use bone meal and cow compose (sometimes line for PH) for fertilizer always have great peas every year
Thank you for the info, it was very helpful! Dale is adorable!
I over seed but instead of double seeding in the same hole I just plant 25% more At 3 inches and transplant missing ones. I really like your channel.
Only thing I didn't do is thin out other plants when they started growing, but none of them seem to be doing bad, all the plants are growing at the same rate and size as the others and are starting to bloom as well. I also side dressed them with triple 8 a week before they started blooming.
Peas were my favorite crop. I grew them every year in my zone 6b garden up north. Now living in zone 8b and I just can't get them right. Planting date is Jan 15 here, but that is still in the middle of the rainy season and they rot. Fall planting is in the beginning of Aug and we're usually hovering at 100 degrees – too hot for any seedling to come up. I wonder if I can start them indoors (in ac) in the fall and transplant outside when we cool off.
Thank you for this!
Another excellent video! You’re always so informative, clear and concise with your instruction. I think you’re the best garden teacher on YouTube. Thank you for your videos
Thank you! I tried to grow peas last year..Not very successful..I am going to try again..hopefully I will do better! You video definitely encouraged me to try again..😊
I got an early start on my peas this year up near Raleigh, most of them are already up and going hoping last night was our last freeze of the season. I am hopeful about the time I harvest the peas I can turn those spots around into maybe cucumbers or small melons to use the trellis and then hopefully about the time my earlier cucumbers and stuff are done I can replace them with peas for the fall. Guess we will see if the timing works out!
Great information! I failed with peas last year and determined not to try again. However, this video has encouraged me to give another try.
For those of us that have first freeze dates in early October and have to start the peas in July… how do you get the seedlings through the July/August heat? We get a lot of 80-90F days then here in zone 5.
If you ideally want 6" spacing, I just sow them at 4-5" space to account for seeds that don't germinate. The stems and roots can then just grow into the gaps.
The biggest problem here with peas is birds eating up the freshly germinated seeds. Therefore I plant the seeds 4 inch or 10 cm deep. By the time they reach the surface they are already older and tougher and apparently don't taste as good anymore.
Just fantastic info! Might be the best Pea video on the web.!
I zig zag plant my pea seeds one inch apart. I plant them along the back of a garden box with a trellis made of string across from one board to another ( obviously screwed into eack end of the garden box ) then plant a shorter crop like lettuce, radishes or carrot in the center and front. As soon as i get my second picking out of three, -2 weeks apart from first harvest, then i plant an additional zigzag 3 inches in front of the old ones. Two weeks later i harvest my final crop, then pull the old plants, chop them & toss on the floor of the area ill be needing nitrogen for next year crop rotation.
After the second batch is complete ( because we have full blown long winters here with deepfreezes ) i pile all my garden plant, chop them , sprinkle over the garden and gather enough leaves around town to cover with a solid foot of leaves. Toss on more sheep manure, toss netting over all of it, pin down with tent hooks and leave all winter till spring melts the snow. Then toss on compost and ,,,,,,, its ready- no till garden. Add mulch mix after planting.
Our soil is by the rocky mountains, its crappy and slighly acidic, very much terrible clay and i never need to fertilize to get a massive crop
For places with short growing season: keep in mind that peas need more warmth to sprout than to grow! So, you could start your peas indoors, and transplant them outdoors when they're 2-3 inches tall. I use half toilet paper rolls, so I don't disturb the roots too much.
I also never fertilize, I just add an inch of home made compost once a year (yes, my garden is very small).
Very excited to be growing peas for the first time this year. Thanks for the help.
How many water it needs?
How do you do with climbers?
Great video, as always
Do you have any experience using inoculants when planting peas?
Thank you.
What about horse manure for fertilizer
I just sowed pea seeds two days ago and will go back and fertilize tomorrow. Thanks!