Why don't green peas grow???
Dear water growers, please tell me!
Why don't our green peas grow? We love it so much, we plant it in the best sunny beds, but it doesn’t grow and that’s it. Well... It grows, of course, and maybe you can pick two handfuls of pods from the garden. However, I remember that in the village as a child, peas were large and juicy, and there were a LOT of them. We ate and ate for almost half the summer, but he didn’t claw))) Tell me which variety is best to choose, where and when to plant? How to care? Not by books, but by experience (we do it by books, but it doesn’t work :()
I don’t have much experience in growing peas, because... We don’t even allocate beds for it. We plant peas in a hole with potatoes. It improves the soil structure. So much of it sprouts that you have to thin it out so as not to crush the potatoes. We eat peas, and in the fall we collect the stems and put them in a greenhouse for cucumbers or under zucchini.
All the time, peas were planted separately, separate beds were set aside, but it turns out that they can be planted over potatoes. Thus, we will free up space for other crops, and the land for potatoes will be improved.
It's strange that your peas don't grow. I plant it under trees and it produces a wonderful harvest, but I wouldn’t say that I really take care of it. Moreover, I never even water the beds much; it grows like a weed here. The only thought I have is that your seed peas themselves are not very good. Have you thought about this?
Peas are a rather unpretentious crop.Try to buy seeds not in bags, but from grandmothers at the market. Surely, there is a market nearby where grandmothers sell. For some reason I can’t make peas from bagged seeds, but I bought them at the market and now I always use peas and plant them with my own seeds.
Buy hybrid varieties. Now there are so many of them. We planted peas that were in milky ripeness for a long, long time and the children feasted on them for probably about 1.5 months.
To get a good pea harvest, you also need to comply with planting dates. Plant as early as possible, in moist soil. Then the plants will thank you with a generous harvest. For the winter, I freeze half a bucket of green peas from a small garden bed.
Peas love watering - this is the time. Secondly, there may be low-quality seeds, as they said correctly. And thirdly, you may have land infested with pests, and these parasites destroy the pea crop.