Peas - product which we often use in cooking in everyday life. Purchased peas not always please with excellent quality therefore many gardeners prefer to grow up this culture independently. It is simple to grow up sufficient harvest of peas, he does not demand any special care. The main thing is to put culture in time, following some rules.
When to plant peas to the open ground
Peas - culture which is always sowed to the open ground at once therefore its landing is always carried out when the threat of frosts passes. In general, this plant is capable to sustain small frosts (to-3 degrees), however exclusively short period.
When choosing term of landing of peas it is necessary to consider not only weather patterns, but also the approximate period when you wish to reap crop. On average peas keep up in 2.5-3 months therefore, having planted it at the end of April, you will be able to regale on tasty peas in the middle of the summer. If you plant peas in order that further to preserve harvest, then land not earlier than the middle of May.
How to plant peas to the open ground
Peas well grow on fertile soils, solar sites. If before disembarkation of peas on beds tomatoes, potatoes or pumpkin grew, and after their collecting the soil has been fertilized by nitrogen fertilizers, then having planted peas on these beds, you will reap fine crop.
Before landing touch seeds: pour into bowl water liter, add couple of teaspoons of normal salt, stir and lower seeds in solution. All emerged remove, and fallen by bottom catch, kill them for about 15 hours in warm water (not higher than 35 degrees).
Use the bulked-up seeds for landing. Dig over bed, remove all backs of weeds and other garbage, slightly water bed. Make grooves at distance of 30 centimeters from each other five centimeters in depth if you did not introduce fertilizer in the fall, then in each groove bring ashes with compost layer in one-two centimeters.
Plant seeds in calculation of 15 peas on one meter of furrow, fill up sowing material with soil and slightly stamp. In order to avoid sklevyvaniye of seeds cover bed with transparent film. The first shoots will appear 7-10 days later if weather cloudy and cool - two weeks later, with the advent of the first sprouts it is possible to remove film from bed.
As for leaving, it is very simple: water beds in process of soil drying, you loosen the soil after each watering, delete in due time weeds and also month later after landing establish support (if grade undersized (to half a meter by height), then the support is not required, in all other cases it is necessary).