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Posted by
stuffradio SW 8A BC (
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Fri, Feb 15, 13 at 17:10
| I planted Peas today. I only planted half the Trellis with peas for now. I'll wait one or two months for the other half. |
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| Peas today; courageous! I've been considering planting them (but yes, only some) - but I'm still a bit wary. You say you're zone 8 - where are you? Here in Port Alberni, zone 7 or 7b, we've had daytime rain & zero-ish nights until a couple of days ago, and the ground's still pretty wet. What peas do you grow and do you ever manage 2 crops in a season? I've pondered the idea of making a hilled-up row for early peas so they wouldn't be waterlogged, maybe with wooden sides and a cover on top to trap some heat. We're supposed to get sun on Sun(!)day so maybe I'll try then. I ususally pre-soak/sprout so I guess I should get started. |
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| I also sowed the "little marvel" peas couple days ago. They're just coming up now. I planted the "alaska" peas last September, expecting them to die in winter. They didn't. I still have them, green and flowering today -- still no pods though. It was an experiment so I'll be keeping them to see if I get any harvest out of them in upcoming spring. As you can see, I don't need to keep them warm - they do just fine in my cool, wet climate and apparently even in my winter (they experienced the freezing temperatures, frosts and snow - though the cold temp don't last long) They're fantastic. So far in my experience, real threat is summer heat. I don't do pre-soak the peas because they're so easy to germinate. I push them in damp soil and they pop up within two or three days. |
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| I pre-sprout in an attempt to avoid repeating previous failures when they rotted before they could germinate, if the ground stayed cold & wet. Pre-sprouting has seemed to work but maybe they'd have survived without it, those years. |
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| All I could think upon reading the thread title was "wow, that's brave, not many would admit it." :) Good luck with the peas. I put up my fence today, but I expect a bit of a wait before I actually plant the peas. |
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Haha sunnibel, thanks.
VanIsle I'm in Metro Vancouver. |
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| bit early since we just have fresh snow |
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| My Peas are germinating already, and they were planted outside directly in the ground! |
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| Nice! Mine's sprouting as well. By the way, how tall did your stupice plants grow? I have stupice seeds (WCS) and was figuring how to support it, and how tall the support should be. (Will be my first time with indeterminate tomato plant.) |
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| At least a couple feet. Not sure how tall exactly. It branched out more than it went up. I didn't have any tomato cages at the time, and by the time I did get some, the branches were getting to wide. I would have had to break the plant in order to get the cages on. So this year I'll put the cages on right away when transplanting. |
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