What’s up with my peas?
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I'm up to my knees in peas!
Comments (11)I also have a lot of peas. I planted Sugar Snap on a cattle panel and they are about 6 feet tall now. I planted early and they made it through temps of high 20s with no cover. I took a mini vacation last week and when I returned I picked almost a gallon. I have had to pick everyday since. We like them raw or immature (snow pea style) for stir fry. We have put 10 stir fry packs in the freezer plus had all we can eat and I am still not keeping up. We had half a day of sunshine today, then rain, so I am sure they will be covered again tomorrow. They are very good tho! You can see the peas on the cattle panel here. I have two tomatoes that should be ready next week. My three earliest plants were in wall-o-water and are a couple of weeks ahead of my other plants. More sun and heat would be nice. Here is a link that might be useful: Pea Vines...See MoreWhen should i give up on my sugar snap peas?
Comments (10)Mine are going crazy with blooms right now, and we've been harvesting for a little over a week. So far the harvest hasn't been huge, but it has been steady. They seemed to stall on those days our high temps were in the 93-98 degree range, but now that it is a little cooler here, they are a little happier and putting out new growth and tons of blooms. I think the rain we got, which only was a half-inch, pleased them greatly. I'm hoping this week's cold front makes them even more happy. At least our sugar snap peas aren't being hailed upon, flooded or being hit by tornadoes. As long as they are still alive and rain is falling, I think they'll keep producing for a while. The wind today did beat the crap out of them. Kim, I always freeze some, but only about 1 year out of 3 do I put tons and tons of them in the freezer. Tim was out of town on business most of last week, so I didn't even pick them and take them into the house. I just picked them and munched on them while working in the garden---instant, garden-fresh fast food. In the fall, you'll probably need row cover to keep them happy long enough to produce. While they tolerate very cold temperatures, if the cold temps hit while they are blooming or about to bloom, those cold temperatures can knock the blooms right off the plants. I don't cover them up at night unless we're expecting temperatures below the mid-20s. Sometimes we get a night or two like that in late Sept or early Oct, but it is more common to get them in November. If you want to grow a variety that doesn't need to be trellised, I grew Cascadia two years ago and Sugar Lace last year, and both of them produced tons and tons of peas----more than my Super Sugar Snaps or Sugar Snaps growing on trellises were able to produce. Because we've already had high temps here hit 98 degrees a couple of times and 93-95 more often than I can believe for May, I am worrying that the green beans won't begin blooming early enough to avoid heat-related blossom drop. Instead of succession sowing some more green beans, I'm going to plant an enormous number of southern peas instead because the heat can't stop them from producing. My mind has moved beyond the warm-season crops to the hot-season crops because it seems like we have gone from the cool season to the hot season in a very brief period of time. My short day onions are bulbing up. It always happens at this time of the year, and it always catches me by surprise. I have to count backwards from now to the time I planted them, realize it is time for them to start bulbing up and say "okay, this is normal". All the cool-season plants I planted are doing better than the sugar snap peas, but that is not unusual. They are the most finicky when it comes to having 32 degree temperatures one morning and then 98 degree temperatures a day or two later. They don't like those crazy temperature swings. I get the best sugar snap pea harvest when we consistently stay cool and moist. This year cannot, by any stretch of the imagination, be described as cool and moist---hence the sugar snap pea behavior....See Morewhat’s the white all i we my peas?
Comments (6)My snow peas always seem to get PM right about the time they start to produce which is also about the time it starts to heat up around here. Didn't plant any this spring but I'm going to give them a shot this fall....See MoreWhat’s up with my Lions Head JM??
Comments (15)In the next to the last shot there are what could perfectly well be honey fungus (Armillaria) rhizomorphs visible on top of the mulch, to the right of the oxalis leaf. And in the right position to account for the trunk wound and detaching bark. Although it is often stated that a whitish fungal growth will be seen when the bark comes off an Armillaria infested trunk (click on the link to an oak page that comes up on the photo page below for descriptive information about honey fungus): https://pnwhandbooks.org/plantdisease/host-disease/maple-acer-spp-armillaria-root-rot If the tree did come from the outlet with a pathogen such as honey fungus then this episode serves to illustrate how "sad plants" aren't necessarily a good deal - you may have now introduced a nuisance destructive agent to your planting site....See MoreUser
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