2000 Mar 29
   

In went the sweet peas today. This is a description of bush-type peas. Check out page 8 to see how some climbing peas look, after a few weeks of growth.

The bush peas: they went into a bed 33 inches wide, by 20 feet long. Some compost. Some lime. A source of a tiny amount of boron. Just a little urea, and sodium nitrate. Some 0-44-0 (phosphorous) and some 0-0-60 (potassium).

The pea seeds were sowed in double-rows: the first row 9 inches from the left edge of the bed, the next row 15 inches from the first row, and the right edge of the bed 9 inches from the second row. The second bed will be the same, 9, 15, and 9. There will 18 inch path between the first bed and the second bed. So the left row of the right bed will be 36 inches from the right row of the left bed. 

The peas seeds were spaced along each row at 9 seeds per foot. 9 x 20 = 90 pea seeds per row. I sowed only one bed today. 20 feet of double-row, same as 40 feet of row. I will try to sow the second bed tomorrow.

I sowed 4 feet of Burpeeana, 4 feet of Little Marvel, 16 feet of Maestro (early), and 16 feet of Maxigolt (mid-season).