How do you grow peas

[alan639]

I've always dug a trench a couple of inches deep about a spades width and scattered the pea seeds. The seed people suggest 2" apart in rows 2 ft apart which doesnt seem many pea plant per sq ft. How do you plany yours ?

[hollychap]

i do the same as you

[VirginVegGrower]

In a gutter in a staggered triple row and then plant into trenches on the allotment when about two to three inches high. They slide out into their trench and make life much easier. I can't sow seed direct as we have mice.

[Alison]

I sow mine about 2" apart but as a double row a few inches apart, works for me.

[Potstubsdustbins]

1000mm x 600mm box 64 plants in 4 rows. Its a bit crowded but providing I am careful with the watering I manage to get a half decent crop.

Colin

[Thelma Sanders]

Straight in the ground - a handful per foot run, not to fussy about how they land
Cover row with fleece, poly or netting to stop birds pulling them out and remove it once they've germinated.
Simples

[allotment grower]

peas

The reason the distance between the pea rows is that once they fill out you wont have much room between them to pick your produce also to allow air flow and sunlight to get to the other rows..

use fencing approx 1 meter high and use stakes for support the lenght of the row can be up to you for example the width of your allotment plot.. sow both sides of the fence for an more prolific crop..

[allotment grower]

Also try something different like purple podded peas they are a wonderful plant that is simular to sweet pea flowers and grows to a hieght of 6 feet..very prolifiic and edible marrowfat pea..

[northepaul]

I dont sow mine directly in the ground because of slugs/mice etc. I have got into the habit of using loo rolls and also a 'specimin' pea from which I save seeds, in a large trug with compost.

[binley100]

I try different ways but I know that this year they will be wrapped in fleece or debris netting after they kept getting eaten last year.........

[Two_Sheds]

I sow mine about 2" apart but as a double row a few inches apart

I do it like that too, but I chit the peas first (it's said to repel mice, don't know if it's true). I grow the peas up chicken wire, as I find the green netting too flimsy and tangley

[Aberdeenplotter]

I've always dug a trench a couple of inches deep about a spades width and scattered the pea seeds. The seed people suggest 2" apart in rows 2 ft apart which doesnt seem many pea plant per sq ft. How do you plany yours ?

Exactly how I do it. It's how my dad showed me how to do it and it works.

[Alison]

I do it like that too, but I chit the peas first (it's said to repel mice, don't know if it's true). I grow the peas up chicken wire, as I find the green netting too flimsy and tangley

I use that semi rigid plastic mesh stuff that they sell in rolls at the garden centre, as you say, mesh is too flimsy and you can't use it year after year. Sow my first couple of rows in guttering but later ones do just fine sown direct but I don't seem to have a mice problem which is good.

[Bigmallly]

Rootrainers then harden off before planting out.

[Alison]

Rootrainers then harden off before planting out.

Blimey, how many root trainers do you own? I tend to sow about 50 odd peas every few weeks so would need a lot