Planting out pea seedlings - what distances?

[LewaK]

Hiya

I have seven or so pea plants that need planting out - they've developed tendrils! So proud. Anyway, I'm hoping to put them along about five foot of fencing, how many can I fit in? What I'm asking is - what's the distance needed for Early Onward peas?

Thanks for your help <3

[Alex_Parrott]

Sorry to burst your bubble but 6 or 7 plants will amke a row of about 15cm I would guess. Pea plants are often planted around 2-3cm apart from one another in a staggered pattern. i.e.

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Couldnt tell you how many you would need for a 5ft row but certainly alot more than you have planted.

start sowing some more now, you have loads of time and to have soem showing tendrils already is great so well done.

[VirginVegGrower]

I planted 50 seeds three inches apart in guttering 4 foot long. I have several pieces so a lot of peas. Suggest putting your plants in a circle or wigwam and put netting around some canes.
Unless you sow more of course?!

[Flummery]

You won't get much of a harvest with 7 plants. You can put peas very close together - they tend to help support each other. It's not a bad idea to plant your seedlings and after soaking more peas overnight, pop them in a few centimetres apart directly into the soil to continue the row.

[bearded bloke]

How many seeds have you sown altogether ? Planting along a fence in straight line last year I set them at 2" (5cm) intervals,which was good in as much as the closer together the more they support each other (so less twigs needed) but it did mean that all 96 grew at the same rate.With hind-site may have been better putting in more twigs & planting 3 lots at 6" (15cm) apart & getting a successional crop rather than a glut.
A 5 foot fence at 2 inch centres in a single row will be 30 plants

[VirginVegGrower]

I sow like this

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[Alex_Parrott]

nice one VVG, thats how I meant my illustration to look like!

[chris]

Peeeeeeeeeeeeeeeaaaaaaas glorioussssssss peaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaas!

[Jelliebabe]

Peas not war

[King Carrot]

Peas be with you - and also with you


Lettuce pray!

[Two_Sheds]

- what's the distance needed for Early Onward peas?

Is the packet no help at all?
As the others have said - 2" apart is about right, planted in a double (staggered) row. So 7 plants is ... a 6" row !

[Alison]

I tend to plant about 50 odd in a 4' row and plant at least 5 of those over a couple of month period.

[Jono]

I grow mine in containers, crammed really close together. With a little help from some twigs, they hold each other up fine.

I guess the containers are about 2 feet long and a foot wide. I put four rows in there, planting a pea every couple of centimetres.

[binley100]

Because of the meeces ....I've started mine in loo rolls and paper tubes. 5 to a roll ......they'll go out a couple of inches apart ....

[VirginVegGrower]

I tend to plant about 50 odd in a 4' row and plant at least 5 of those over a couple of month period.

SNAP! With a capital pea at the end...