peas

[bill63]

Hi all members please help new member to organic growing everthing in veg plot doing fine exept peas have planted two lots but no joy any one had same problems thanks for any advice Bill

[Lesley Jay]

Hi Bill and welcome!

I had the same problem the first year I tried to grow peas. I sowed the peas direct into the ground and apparently they get eaten by mice. Now I sow peas and beans into cells in the greenhouse and plant out the seedlings. Did you sow the peas direct like me?

[Primrose]

I tried peas for the first time last year.
I dug a 4inch wide trench at the suggested depth and sowed the peas quite thickly, put a climbing frame on one side and did the same the other side. This was very successful and had loads of peas - if the mice dug up a few I didn't notice.
Have done the same this year and already they are looking good

[malcolmx]

sow peas in gutters and slide into trench if not sow at twice the recommended level and put a thick layer of compost over the peas

[Moyra]

I sowed my first lot of peas in jiffy pots and then put them. I have lost a few and even where I have dropped some more peas into the spaces left by the lost ones they have not come through. I'm afraid the snails and slugs had those odd ones. I have since sown another lot direct into the ground and I am pleased to say they all look as though they are coming through much better than the first lot.