Hey, mine have popped up and are about almost 2" now! We got an inch of rain over the past 2-3 days and they seemed to like that a lot. I've got them under netting because the bunnies and deer are like locusts this year. I have no tulips at all this Spring. :-(

When they get taller I'll put up some string for them to climb. (That whole 'keeping me sane' thing...;-D )

Kris

My luck looks worse than yours, Prof. Half of mine are croaking. The sprouts looked great when I planted them out, and then we had a week and a half of strong winds, cloudy cool days, and low temps around the freezing mark. Probably should have put the row cover over them, but didn't. The leaves on several of them turned brown and crispy, then the sprout just withered away. I WS more today, but still don't know why some look fine, and are putting on a little growth, while the others are dying.

This is only my second year for peas, but I didn't have this problem last year. Anyway, I'm open to advice/suggestions on what to do different.

Bonnie

I direct sowed about a week after Prof. Mine are about 3-4" and just starting to vine.

6 inches and counting. It's been cool lately. They will shoot up when it gets much warmer.

Just barely above ground and I sowed the end of March too. I think it has been a very cold spring so far.

Mine haven't germinated yet as of 4/20/09. Sowed them on 3/9.

It's been very cold this spring, most days only in the 40's and temps at night at or below freezing.

Lots of rain as well, but nothing flooding as of yet.

Fran

I'm with Fran...nothing yet. Cold, rainy, cloudy. I planted about the same time, early March. I got nuttin'.

I'll try to be patient.

My sense of direction is fabulous. Take me there once blindfolded and I can go back a million times. But ask me how tall, how long, or how far and I just can't do it. I'll go out with a ruler tomorrow and check back in.

The ones that have sprouted are about 2 inches tall. I am disappointed though in the number that sprouted. I think I got less than 50% germination. Well now I'll wait and see how the ones that did sprout do. My yard is full of rabbits this Spring so it will be touch and go!
Joann

Mine are just peeking out. They've been that way for almost a week... kind of like they have one eye open on the weather. So far, they aren't liking it too much. I bet by the end of the week they'll be up and smiling!

I only have sweet peas, they're just popping their first leaves.

I have Electric Blue Container Sweet Peas with true leaves in a container, but my veggie-peas I just sowed this past weekend. I doubt they're up, but vera's post from last year looks like about 10 days, so I don't even expect them to come up in this weekend's heat. Maybe next week.

Mine are just breaking through the soil now. I planted about the same time as Token. (of course it's a wee bit colder here)

I recently DS my peas, maybe a week ago now. I haven't checked them yet. It's too soggy to get around that bed much. They are raised up though.

I've got some that are 12 inches, some that are 2" and many that are in between. I carry a clear plastic ruler in my plant out bucket because I am simply unable to gauge 12" apart. Mind you, I don't get uptight about getting things exactly 12" apart, but without the ruler, I would miss it by a mile.

Seedmama, who can recite the phone numbers, with area code, of everyone she's known since the age of three, but can't visualize 12 inches. Weird.

My peas.

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Planted with wintersown carrots, borage, and strawberry starts.

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My P's are doing great! My Q's aren't doing so hot though...:)

I've got two rows just starting to peek out of the soil sowed in mid-March. They are undera row cover to save from bunnies. Maybe the warmer temps this weekend will get them to pop up a bit more.

My seeds look great (still in their packet) ;)

Had to laugh, at the peas in the packet, I planted out my indoor sown peas and they are doing well a couple of casualties but not bad I then sowed my direct ones at the same time these are also doing well popping up all over, except in the bed next to the indoor started ones, anyway after several weeks I investigate, being the nosy type I dig up the whole bed...not 1 pea to been seen as its a raised bed and been completely undisturbed as far as I can tell, I was a bit perplexed, then I went back to my original plan, and realised I had completely forgot to plant them! DOH!

7yo wintersowed them back in March -- half are planted out and about 4 inches high right now. I didn't realize they have taproots, hard to transplant -- next year I will just sow them directly!

So, about string -- does the string have to be vertical or will they climb a series of horizontal strings? (between 2 poles)

Checking in...didn't realize that I'd only sown these less than a month ago, but I can't say that the original WSn batch is much more than 2" tall. I poked some others into the soil directly after I planted out the WSn ones, and those are just barely breaking the surface now.

I don't know why I'm thinking they should be farther along by now, similar to prof's original post when his were just over a month old.

Prof- when did your peas finally start to take off?

I used the old seeds from last year - Sugar Snap Peas - They were direct sown in late Feb, up to about 20 inches now -(had to stake them), and I thought i would not see any peas because of that warm spell we had.

Went out this morning and doing the happy dance - found a pea, but let it stay on the vine to get a bit bigger. I only did six plants, and since my husband doesn't eat them - what little I will have will be eaten very soon.

Carrie

Mine really started taking off about two weeks ago. The Sugar Ann is about two weeks ahead of the Sugar Snap in terms of flowering and setting peas. The SS are taller and just now starting to flower.

They really did seem to get off to a slow start, though. I figured they'd be finished by the end of May when it usually starts getting really hot here, and have cucs and melons planned for their vertical space. They better get a move on!

Prof

I ate a few while weeding the garden this morning. I planted Alaska and are only sweet when very tiny. when they get the size you buy in the store they taste nasty. What is wrong?
Pattie