Planting Sweet Peas Plants
Planting sweet peas is a great start off for your home vegetable garden.
Sugar snap peas are unique to me; because I had neither eaten nor grew them before I came to Netherlands.
One day I saw these sweet peas were sold in one of the supermarket during our regular weekly marketing. These are something different and I wanted to taste them. However, the price was pretty high; when I compared it to the rest of the snap beans.
Afterwards, I understood from my mum-in-law that, such a type of vegetable was never in her vegetable shopping list. I was even more curious; so, I bought it for the first time.
Sugar peas is also known as Sugar snap peas and pole beans (Peulen in
Dutch). These peas are very sweet; especially the fresh harvests from
your own vegetable garden.
Growing peas is very
interesting and fun. If you have a mini greenhouse or a cold frame, you
can sprout the pea seeds as early as; in the late winter days.
How to Start
- When
seedling, set sweet pea seeds in one inch (about 2.5 cm) depth of
potting soil would be sufficient; as they have shallow roots.
Planting Sweet Peas Plant Begins with one Small little Pea
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- Sowing in early spring to mid spring direct in the open ground outdoor. If
you have plenty of space, set them in rows about 2.5 feet (about 76 cm)
apart; one to two inches apart from each other.
- These creeping vines
needed stakes. Set the
trellis or bamboo sticks support before you sow your pea seeds. These
sweet pea plant is about 3.5 feet (about 100 cm) tall.
- If you are using trellis or wire netting with more gardening space, you
will notice that, you can plant more at one time; and the plants could
climb higher to reach more than 5 feet (160 cm) in height; and obviously
your harvest would be much more.
- These pea vines love a place with weed free, full sun and moist
ground. Water pea plants regularly when the weather is dry. If you can
provide them a ring to protect them from the underground unwanted
cutworms and the unwelcome slugs; they will grow much faster.
Planting Sweet Peas to Enrich the Soil
Growing sweet peas is easy; and the sweet pea flower is really charming. They are in dark and light purple colours. No matter how small is your garden space, you should never exclude this pea plants from your vegetable list.
Peas are belong to the legumes group. I guess you already knew that, these plants will extract their own favourite plant food from the air. You need to provide only rain water and a good drainage of warm soil; the rest will be taken care by the nature.
When near the end of the growing season, I was happy to watch the little birds playing around with our pea plants and searching around for their favourite insects.
Planting Sweet Peas for Joy
After their visits, I discovered that, they had eaten some and destroyed some of the newly grown young pods from these vines. So, they can also be considered as one of the garden pest.
Harvest in late spring to mid summer when the peas in the pods are clearly shown. Normally it will take about 60 days from sowing to the first harvest.
Try a brand new edible gardening idea and occupy your frugal garden with these supper sweet vegetables plants?
