You can grow peas yourself in your own garden. But right at the beginning a crucial question arises: When and how do you sow?
Pea plants (Pisum sativum) can easily be grown in your own garden. The plant from the legume family (Fabaceae) hardly takes up any space, so it is suitable for every vegetable garden and provides its protein-rich peas throughout the summer. Important for the successful Pea cultivation is the right time to sow. We'll show you how best to get a rich Pea harvest to achieve.
When to sow the peas
Pea plants are not among the most cold-sensitive plants in the garden and can therefore be sown in spring. Sugar peas and peas can be sown outdoors from the end of March, but you will have to be patient with peas. You should not sow this variety until April, as it is more sensitive to the cold. If you want to speed up the cultivation, you can bring peas to the window sill from the beginning of March to mid-March and then plant them outdoors in April.
How to sow peas
Growing pea plants is quite straightforward, you can't generally go wrong. When sowing, proceed as follows:
- Sowing depth: 5 cm
- Distance between plants: 5 to 10 cm
- Row spacing: 40 cm
Crop rotation is a particularly important aspect of pea cultivation. Do not plant peas where peas or other legumes have been used for the last 6 years Beans or Lupins were grown. It is very important to keep the cultivation break in order to rule out diseases in the root area.
It continues like this after sowing the peas
After sowing the peas, you need to be patient a little. As soon as the first plants appear and are a few centimeters high, you should take care of a climbing aid. For example, twigs or hazel branches that you stick in the space between the young plants are ideal. These supports are usually sufficient to give the plants enough support, as most of them do Pea varieties usually do not grow taller than 80 cm.
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