Even the most inexperienced gardener can grow an excellent harvest of green peas, as this crop is so unpretentious in care.
Selecting a bed and sowing dates
The crop likes open sunny areas without shade, but does not tolerate drafts. Peas can grow in almost any climate, tolerate cold well and quickly begin to bear fruit.
The crop prefers nutritious and loose soil and will not grow well in acidic soil.
Therefore, if the soil in the garden bed is acidic, it must be limed several weeks before sowing by adding 400 g of lime per square meter of the plot.
Already at the end of April, you can start sowing green peas. This crop can be sown again in mid-June, after the first harvest.
At a temperature of about +8 degrees, peas can begin to bear fruit, but a comfortable temperature for them is about +20 degrees.
Preparing the bed and sowing
It is advisable to allocate a bed for green peas after cabbage and beets. Peas cannot be sown after other legumes.
The garden bed begins to be prepared in the fall - it is necessary to dig up the soil with a bayonet, add about 6 kg of humus or compost at the same time, add 40 g of superphosphate and 20 g of potassium salt.
In spring, fresh manure should not be added to peas, as this fertilizer will lead to excessive growth of green mass, and the plants will not bear fruit.
Green peas are sown both dry and pre-soaked. Immediately after the beans have swollen, they are sown, slightly dried.
On the bed, furrows are marked out about 3 cm deep, leaving 20 cm between the rows. A minimum of 10 cm should be left between the seeds.
Rules for caring for a bed of green peas
The culture loves abundant watering, especially during seed germination and fruiting. When watering, the consumption rate is a bucket of water per square meter of the bed. Watering should be done once a week, and twice a week during drought.
After watering, the next day the soil between the rows is loosened and weeds are removed at the same time.
Green peas are fed twice during the entire growth period.
You can use organic fertilizers or complex mineral compositions.
The plants require support because they grow vertically. You can simply drive in pegs and stretch a net over them, which the peas will cling to with their tendrils.
Typically, midsummer is the time to harvest green peas. The pods are picked every three days. When the pod is green and the seeds are lying side by side in the pod, it is time to harvest green peas from your garden.
