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Post by daylilydude on Aug 29, 2017 18:22:29 GMT -5
Looking for any info from ones who have grown these like, can they be grown in pots, do I need a very big trellis and production.
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Post by bestofour on Sept 1, 2017 10:13:21 GMT -5
I've gotten seeds from Patriot Supply the last few years and have grown them on a trellis but I think they would grow fine in a pot. I like peas and eat them straight from the garden.
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Post by meandtk on Sept 1, 2017 15:40:47 GMT -5
Is this a sweet pea?
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Post by daylilydude on Sept 2, 2017 11:15:30 GMT -5
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Post by paquebot on Sept 2, 2017 22:44:43 GMT -5
Little Marvel doesn't need a trellis or any support. Plant in a double row about 6" apart and they will support each other. That's been my choice for the earliest for years. Closest that I have found to it is Progress No. 9.
Martin
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Post by daylilydude on Sept 3, 2017 20:04:17 GMT -5
Ok... I have talked myself into trying a few in a self-watering pot... how many do you think I should plant in the container?
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Post by paquebot on Sept 5, 2017 0:28:20 GMT -5
Don't know how big that container is but I space peas 3" apart in double rows 6" apart. I would suggest at least 3x3 or 9 square inches per plant. These little guys don't bush out as much as beans would.
Martin
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Post by daylilydude on Sept 5, 2017 3:56:26 GMT -5
Thank you paquebot, I planted 7 in this bucket... 6 in a round circle and 1 in the center.
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Post by bestofour on Sept 5, 2017 10:06:18 GMT -5
7 should be good for that container. These plants don't take up much room.
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Post by daylilydude on Sept 7, 2017 4:25:37 GMT -5
Thank you bestofour, i'm kinda experimenting with these self watering pots to kinda get an idea of how much production I can get out of them... after all it's just me and the wife now, but we loves our peas...
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Post by daylilydude on Sept 9, 2017 20:29:24 GMT -5
They have started to sprout... can't wait to see how they work out as far as production goes.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 25, 2017 19:17:23 GMT -5
So, how did these do for you?
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Post by daylilydude on Oct 28, 2017 17:19:03 GMT -5
Howdy @imp, They were doing ok but tonight we have a freeze warning so i'm thinking they are not going to make it... LOL! Here are a couple of pics and just so everyone knows these were NOT fertilized in any way... just thew seed in one of the self watering buckets ,put a cage in there and let them go. Now next spring will be a lil different as I learned a lil about these grow buckets in the little time I have had with them.
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Post by september on Oct 29, 2017 10:59:28 GMT -5
They are already blooming! Why not move the bucket into the garage or house for overnighting on the coldest nights?
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Post by Laura_in_FL on Oct 30, 2017 12:07:40 GMT -5
The funny thing about peas is that older pea plants (that have already been producing) are more frost-sensitive than young pea plants. I have seen this myself, with fall-planted peas right next to late-winter planted peas. A spring frost that barely damaged the baby pea plants completely killed the big fall plants. I wasn't expecting that at all!
So fall pea plants need to be started early enough to produce before frost.
But you can plant spring peas in the late winter/very early spring, Newly-sprouted peas can take temperatures down to 28F, and young plants can survive temperatures well down into the 20s or maybe even slightly below 20F, for a night or two. (They don't handle extended cold spells well). Also, you might lose flower buds and tiny pea pods even in a light frost, but the rest of the plant should be okay and will resume production when temperatures warm back up.
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Post by bestofour on Oct 30, 2017 16:18:50 GMT -5
Did they make it?
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Post by daylilydude on Nov 1, 2017 4:10:42 GMT -5
Looks like they may have made it thru both days...lol!
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Post by paquebot on Nov 2, 2017 19:44:00 GMT -5
We've had killing frost for a couple nights and there's some peas blooming in one of my gardens. They are from some which got too far along and not picked. Not enough time but it would be like two crops in one season. A lot of peas are grown around here. One wet year in the '60s or '70s had some fields that didn't get harvested. I was coon hunting in mid-November and went to cross a pea field. The entire field was at its peak of maturity. I loaded the trunk of my car with vines!
Martin
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Post by Deleted on Jan 5, 2018 15:11:20 GMT -5
I am wondering about planting some early peas in the "trough" area between my potatoes, wonder if that would work? The peas would be getting ahead of the potato plants, but are peas short rooted enough to do this?
Good idea or not?
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Post by poppopt on Jan 5, 2018 15:54:12 GMT -5
I had an experience a couple of years back where I tried planting some fall peas. I've always heard that they can take a mild frost.
On the night that we had that first mild frost, the peas were at the stage where they had blossomed and the pea pods were one to three inches long but nothing filled out yet. And they looked fine. But... they never grew after that. I watched them for several weeks afterward and the pea pods that were on never filled out and never grew any more and none of those blossoms brought forth more pea pods. The plants appeared alive and green but I was not going to be getting any peas.
My lesson was that the pea plants could take the frost. But the young pods and blossoms could not. So I learned something.
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Post by hairymooseknuckles on Jan 5, 2018 16:09:44 GMT -5
They are already blooming! Why not move the bucket into the garage or house for overnighting on the coldest nights? That was my thought too. Way too pretty to lose them.
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Post by mgulfcoastguy on Jan 5, 2018 21:56:04 GMT -5
I wish that we could plant them but we don't seem to have enough weeks in the right temperature range. We used to plant Novella English peas back when we still tried.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 6, 2018 14:40:49 GMT -5
I am wondering about planting some early peas in the "trough" area between my potatoes, wonder if that would work? The peas would be getting ahead of the potato plants, but are peas short rooted enough to do this? Good idea or not? Bringing this forward in case anyone has any ideas on this?
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