[fatbelly]

For me, growing peas other than direct sowing, (except for a few specialty peas), is impossible!

DD what length are your rows & how many rows do you grow.
Lasts season I harvested around 6lb peas from 3 X 15ft rows, but this year intend to get grow more.

[DD.]

My rows are 32' long and I grow around 200' worth of peas, plus small rows of heritage ones I'm growing for seed.

You can see why anything other than direct sowing is a no-no!

[fatbelly]

My rows are 32' long and I grow around 200' worth of peas.

What weight does this give the freezer? (Approx)

[DD.]

You think they make it that far? 

I've never really weighed them, Dr. H. reckons that a foot of peas at the correct spacing should give 1lb of peas. I think that's rather optimistic!

We tend to eat a lot in season, freezing a few down, so I can't really say what weight of shelled peas has been harvested, maybe I'll try it this year.

[fatbelly]

Thanks, last season I mine germinated great but I took the netting off when they reached about 2ft tall & the flying Rats decimated them. But I still got 6lb of lovely Peas (Kelvedon Wonder)

[DD.]

I have to net at all stages now. Wasn't so when I first started growing on the present plot, but the FR's learned to squash the foliage down on the top of the plants to make landing pads. 

[Totty]

Will be growing lots of peas this year, including some interesting heritage ones (thanks DD!  ) and every single one will be chitted first. More than anything, they throw roots faster, making timing for sowing the seed much easier. I've had seed rot before now when I've sowed, had good weather for a week, then lots of rain. By chitting them first, the chance of rot is hugely reduced.

[Mark's Sussex Allotment]

How many do you chit, and can you just plant them direct in to the soil roots down?

[Totty]

I'll chit a packet at a time. Not too sure how many there is in a packet to be honest, got to be a couple of hundred or more. When mst of them have chitted I prepare the shallow trench exactly the same as if you were sowing seed straight from the packet and chuck em in. Roots know which way down is, I just roughly throw them in a couple of inches apart and cover.

[DD.]

Recommended pea spacing is this:



In practice I throw them in and aim for an average of the above, with one or two extras for good measure.

[fatbelly]

I tried to grow Peas on my Lottie for a few years and had marginal success until I tried the DD method including using sticks with twine for the plants to grow up. I did really well last year and am now hooked on growing Peas.

[DD.]

Your cheque's in the post! 

[fatbelly]

Your cheque's in the post! 

I posted it Snail Mail & it should be with you by 2019

[Salmo]

I always sow mine direct, but last year the mouse population suddenly discovered my peas and ate the whole lot. I sow quite a lot and it's just too much faff to use modules or anything like that, so I had a hunt around the web and discovered a video on Youtube showing how to stop them with 1/4" wire mesh. You just bend it to make a kind of inverted u-shaped tunnel and pop it over the row of peas, weighted down with stones so the edges go right into the soil. It did work, my second sowing germinated just fine and was unmolested by mice or pigeons, both of which I have in plenty.

Do you leave the mesh in place and just let the peas grow through it?

[Muls]

I've set up motion sensors and rocket launchers against the mice! I didn't know they liked brassica seeds as well as peas!