Pea Growing, 2022

[heirloomgal]

The "buttery , slightly sweet flavor" is what piqued my interest.

This makes me think of all the tomato descriptions I've read over the years. Occasionally you'll see one being described as having a 'spicy' flavour. I have yet to find a spicy tomato! I do find the adjectives used in vegetable descriptions almost enjoyable to read because of the creativity employed. Really though, I don't find it easy to describe the taste of a vegetable!

 

[meadow]

Oh my goodness, Mesa arrived today!!

 

[meadow]

SSE finally had Good Mother Stallard beans in stock, so naturally I had to place an order. I mean, what's a girl to do? Somehow a few peas jumped into the cart:

Bill Jump's Soup Pea
Sutton's Harbinger Pea
Champion of England Pea

Those will go into the freezer for next year.

DD also picked up a few items for me at the Mennonite store near her home (kinda worried about food supplies), and is sending some Green Arrow from her bulk seed purchase (yay!!). I should be getting them at the end of the week. Do you think it is too late to plant them this season?

 

[flowerbug]

SSE finally had Good Mother Stallard beans in stock, so naturally I had to place an order. I mean, what's a girl to do? Somehow a few peas jumped into the cart:

Bill Jump's Soup Pea
Sutton's Harbinger Pea
Champion of England Pea

Those will go into the freezer for next year.

DD also picked up a few items for me at the Mennonite store near her home (kinda worried about food supplies), and is sending some Green Arrow from her bulk seed purchase (yay!!). I should be getting them at the end of the week. Do you think it is too late to plant them this season?

i think your temperatures are milder than ours and some peas i've planted have still gone as far as August. so it depends upon the variety and how tolerant of heat it might be and if your weather lets you get away with it. for us, April - May planting can work out just fine. plant a half dozen seeds and see how they do.

 

[ducks4you]

SSE finally had Good Mother Stallard beans in stock, so naturally I had to place an order. I mean, what's a girl to do? Somehow a few peas jumped into the cart:

Bill Jump's Soup Pea
Sutton's Harbinger Pea
Champion of England Pea

Those will go into the freezer for next year.

DD also picked up a few items for me at the Mennonite store near her home (kinda worried about food supplies), and is sending some Green Arrow from her bulk seed purchase (yay!!). I should be getting them at the end of the week. Do you think it is too late to plant them this season?

While waiting for my car's oil change this morning, I came upon This article, which might give you some insight.'https://gardenerspath.com/plants/vegetables/plant-crops-fall/
1) If you start seeds this week, don't start ALL of your seeds. Save some for Fall planting
2) Fall planting requires you to do some work calculating what is best for the Fall crops, dates for maturity/harvest, TEMPERATURE for starting some Fall crops indoors as EARLY as July!
Some Fall crops won't Start well if direct sown outside, with soil that is too warm.
Figuring YOUR 1st frost/last frost dates are pretty easy.
Mine are Around April 4th/October 27th
Yours are Probably different
I figure that it is ALL a learning curve.
Heck I haven't even starting my onions, leeks or chives bc of the "house babysitting" for the past 2 weeks.
But I WILL start them this weekend bc I NEED to learn how to grow them, and it won't happen if I don't DO IT.

 

[Gardening with Rabbits]

I have been planting Tall Telephone Peas for a few years. Mostly just for fun because I do not have a lot of room. I think another name is Alderman.

 

[meadow]

i think your temperatures are milder than ours and some peas i've planted have still gone as far as August. so it depends upon the variety and how tolerant of heat it might be and if your weather lets you get away with it. for us, April - May planting can work out just fine. plant a half dozen seeds and see how they do.

That is a very good idea, planting some to see how they do. Last year we had a really unusual heat wave in June. Pretty sure it got up over a hundred degrees but I can't recall the details. One lady collapsed from the heat and died on the sidewalk.

 

[meadow]

That is a very nice article, @ducks4you, thanks!! I have it bookmarked to go over it more carefully.

I learned this year that bulbing onions need to be started as early as possible to form their rings. Apparently each ring is actually a leaf. Once the days get a certain length, they stop producing leaves and start swelling out. I'm probably saying this all wrong, I don't know, but I hope that's at least close to how it is. Corrections/clarifications welcome!!

 

[meadow]

I have been planting Tall Telephone Peas for a few years. Mostly just for fun because I do not have a lot of room. I think another name is Alderman.

That is one that I've heard good things about and would like to try. Not sure how I missed buying it this year.

 

[heirloomgal]

SSE finally had Good Mother Stallard beans in stock, so naturally I had to place an order. I mean, what's a girl to do? Somehow a few peas jumped into the cart:

Bill Jump's Soup Pea
Sutton's Harbinger Pea
Champion of England Pea

Those will go into the freezer for next year.

DD also picked up a few items for me at the Mennonite store near her home (kinda worried about food supplies), and is sending some Green Arrow from her bulk seed purchase (yay!!). I should be getting them at the end of the week. Do you think it is too late to plant them this season?

Dried peas, in my experience, make fantastic 'possible calamity' varieties. So productive.

Oooohh, Sutton's Harbinger one of the finest tasting shelling peas I've tried.