Peas Are Planted

The peas are finally planted in the bales! In earlier articles I covered the steps to conditioning the bales but now that they are ready planting has commenced!

Peas are one of the first crops I plant with potatoes being first. Both are cooler weather plants and both are somewhat frost tolerant.

Peas need something to crawl up and I use what I have on hand from a prior life, t-posts and cattle panels. Wanting to save myself some work I have a rows of bales right next to each other, that way I can have one panel that the plants can grow up from either side.

It does not work well to just put seeds into the bales as seeds germinate best when surrounded boil soil. So the next step was to put a layer of soil onto of the bales.

One problem though, especially if you have sandy soil, is the soil will dry rather quickly. In the lessons learned department I put the hoses facing up so that they act as sprinklers.

Until the plants get established I will check on them several times per day to make sure the soil has not dried out too much, and will be turning on the water for frequent but short intervals!