A Complete Guide for Growing Peas: Indoors, Outdoors, Containers, Trellising - Table of Contents

welcome to the rest of garden today's March 31st 2018 and this is a compilation video on peas growing them indoors outdoors in peat pots and cups and seed cells and containers direct selling them into the ground I taken really five years worth of P videos that I've done and I put them into one long video with a digital table of contents so you can jump to wherever you'd like to go one myth I'd like to dispel is you can absolutely start peas and doors I've been doing it for five ten years and they can transplant nicely out into the garden again today's the 31st back on February 25th I put peas into containers they have not come up yet on March 4th I've put them into these seed cells they had the storage bottoms just like the one back there on top to protect them from the cold at night they look okay very beat-up though if you come over here I started these indoors on March 14th and you can see how well they're doing and the reason you do that is so that you can get a jump on the season and get peas more quickly to your table let me go show you what's down in the earth beds the peas right here we started indoors on February 19th grew for about three weeks and then I put them out here in the beginning of March they were protected with the storage box bottoms through nights of 28 degree temperatures for like 710 days they survived snow on top I'll cut in a real quick picture of the snow those are dish racks from a thrift store dollar ninety-nine for two that will protect them from rabbits but you can see how well they're doing so you can certainly start peas at different times so that you can get them out into your garden and I use all kinds of different things I pick up at thrift stores to protect the plants from rabbits here's the video use the digital table of contents to jump to the parts that are most valuable to you but you can see a lot of the plants are doing really well now the ones that browned out and died work because the freeze was too bad but I was able to start pea it's take a look and these are people ants and they're doing perfectly fine protected with these containers how to get them started so two weeks from today when my ground has finally thought hopefully I'll be able to get these into the ground and have a jump on the season you can provide a lot of frost protection for your cool weather crops by using plastic cups that are rigid you want the hard ones because you can press them into the ground and the winds not gonna blow them over but for the last week we've had temperatures in the low 20s even in the teens and you can see that by adding these cups most of the plants fared pretty well that one will need to be replaced but it gave them enough protection that they're going to be okay at least four out of six let me show you what happened to plants that weren't protected and then I want to show you how the plants did in here in a sort of double protection plastic rigid cups and a bag that was pulled up over this the unprotected peas just couldn't deal with fifteen degrees below freezing in some cases peas are great at dealing with a frost if you go three four five degrees but when you get down to ten degrees 15 degrees below freezing they're just not going to make it you can see that they've yellowed out and they're dead they're gonna need to be replaced now you can use a clear plastic trash bag to give another level of protection for your cool weather crops you can also use this just way to make a hothouse tomato cage if you want to get your peppers and your tomatoes out early but again we got really cold temperatures this week and these are my container Peas the rigid plastic cups work really well the plastic bag pulled up and closed off like a teepee gives another level of protection and bakes basically you're making to micro climates the microclimate from the plastic bag and from the plastic cup and I can actually feel the heat pouring out of here and they did really well these are going to be perfectly fine one tips to keep in mind is today it's now sixty degrees so with the Sun out no clouds or anything like that the inside temperature of this can heat up pretty high so when it creeps into the 60s you really want to quickly get this tent down because you could actually burn your plants out welcome to the rest of garden today I wanna talk to you about three general types of pea categories which you would plant there's a lot of varieties there's dwarf peas tall peas purple flowers white flowers wrinkled peas purple pods plain pods those are different variations but there are three main categories before I get to that you want to make sure you know when to plant your cool weather crops peas like a light frost 70 degrees this is my dog lucky and when it gets colder here the static builds up in the house and you can see it really my dog's hair when the static leaves the house when her hair is no longer sticking out like that that's when I know to plant peas in my garden not everybody has a long-haired dog so let me just show you some tips peas like 40 degree soil to get started anything lower they're not going to germinate they like moist soil so they don't like soil that is soaking wet or they're going to rot they like phosphorous don't give them a lot of nitrogen and the yields of peas decreases the days increase so you really want to get them out early into the ground there are three major types there's English peas snap peas pod peas those are the three types of peas that you can really categories that you can plant and it gets confusing because they go by different names so the major categories are the English peas shell pea shelling peas and those are peas that are just for the mature pm's pea themselves you don't eat the pod here's a bunch of different piece I'm going to show you what they are after I show you the categories you have your snap peas the key word is snap anything that has the word snap in it is an edible pod with mature peas and you let them mature and when you break them they make that classic snap sound that's how they got their name and then you have sugar peas or snow peas and these are really the flat pods or the immature pods and that's often what you see in stir-fry and when you go to the stores you're going to see all kinds of names these are Alaskan peas and these are actually shelling peas and sometimes if you look on the back it tells you what they are I actually had to look these because it always doesn't tell you usually when there's nothing written on the package it's a shelling type pain again the shelling peas you only eat the peas themselves and then you can go to I said here's a dwarf variety this is little good luck who's gonna get a treat and when you look on this package to figure out what kind of pea it is it doesn't tell you so I had to look this up online and this is also a shelling pea so these are just grown for the peas themselves then you have a super sugar snap and it gets confusing because the word sugar is in it and the word snap isn't it over here you have sugar peas or you have snow peas any time that it says snap it could say sugar sugar sugar snap you know super snow sugar snap the word snap means that it's an edible pod mature pea full-sized P and that's what you always look for whenever it says Smith this one says melting sugar snow pea so this is more of a stir-fry and it's just a flat pod within immature peas this is right on the package size of shell P so this is another shelling pea then you have the super snappy again the key word is snap this is a pea that you grow to full size you can eat the pod and you can eat large mature peas the dwarf gray sugar only says sugar and I don't know if you can really see it on there but these are the flat pods with immature Peas again your stir fry type P you have the Oregon sugar pod sugar key word sugar or snow another flat variety with immature peas your stir fry and then you have your Cascadia sugar snap don't be confused by the word sugar again snap so you have really three varieties full pea you don't eat the pod they're usually called English peas or shelled peas snap peas which is a nice full pea full size P full size pod very sweet this is what I tend to grow more of I highly recommend the snap peas and then you have the sugar peas or the snow pea which are the flat pods or the immature peace talk to you about growing peas is transplants I was always told Peas do not like to have their roots touched or disturbed in any way and that you could not grow them as transplants and these are peas right here that are examples of how that's simply not true you can absolutely grow peas as transplants and let me show you what I mean by transplants you can use your standard tomato cells you can use recycled flour can cells and you can use something that falls in between and the peas that are in these buckets we're all grown is transplants for a couple weeks and these sort of thing and I'll stress throughout the video is your peas really have to be seed started in these different containers and then get outside into every you're going to plant them within two to four weeks these are all overgrown and let me show you an example starting backwards today is the 13th these were planted on March 6th and in about a week they're going to be ready to go out and you can already see the roots coming out if you start them in smaller cells like this you only have about two weeks from when they germinate to get them outdoors because they become too big and we've had of course our typical East Coast weather where I'm getting nights of frost and freeze now frost for these plants are ok they can handle anywhere from thirty two degrees to like 28 degrees and do perfectly fine that's why I study when you're in a zone like I am and you get the four seasons you can't get your peas out to the ground right now because it's frozen and it's soggy but you can start them indoors early and you can start them anywhere from 10 to 21 days and the reason I say that is for instance these peas in here are in peat pots and look at the root system already and need was planted today's of xix these are planted on the eleven so that's only eight days worth of growth when you're holding him in here you got to make sure moisture stays in the bottom of the container so plan to start these peas ten to fourteen days before you would get them out into your garden or out into your containers but this is a great way to save some time get them growing and you'll get quis earlier to the table it's real easy it's real simple I set up my starting mix packed the soil in there nice and tightly because peas have a really massive root system we're good to go with sugar and peas in here you can put one seed in you can put two seeds in it's up to you but you can do it this quickly I like to put in two seeds you can always thin if you want to but I found you can really pack peas into a space and they will do perfectly fine so these are the sugar hands and this is all you got to do press them in pretty far down at least halfway those are the sugar hands and we're just going to show you how quickly you can do this whole strip and this over here only eight days worth of growth and what I've been doing is every day I take these out and give them an hour to of Sun so that they're already being acclimated or hardened hardening off to the elements because when you have stuff that grows inside once they've been growing a week two weeks three weeks they really don't have any tolerance one tip I have is when you're growing plants inside they're not used to the Sun so if you let them grow in air three four weeks and then bring them outside the Sun will actually burn them well once they germinate indoors take them outside for an hour or two and let them get the Sun and here are my peas started on February 11th they're all doing really really well that's only eight days of growth and you can see in the peat pots the root systems are already coming through don't worry about that there's a lot of myths where people say oh you can't umm seed start Peas and Transplant them well I've been doing this for years and it's perfectly affect that I don't really like using the peat pots for starting my seeds except for peas because they're going to go straight into the ground in the peat pots loser Forgan sugar-snap now for the plastic trees you saw the root system see if we got one coming in here you see that they're coming out let me just use one of these finish that if you're going to use the plastic make sure you break the bottoms up this way when you pull your transplant out the roots don't get caught on the plastic will get damaged and a lot of people say oh you can't grow these in containers or seat starts of it like this because they don't transplant well and that's not true of the numinous for years if you're careful they're gonna transplant perfectly now if you want to start them early and hold them for closer to 14 days or longer start them in cups put two in there they'll be able to stay in here longer because the root systems have a lot more space to grow you're not gonna be growing out of the bottom of the cup relearning mix across the top you're gonna bottom water these just fill up the bottom of the tray let the water soak in for about 15 minutes whatever doesn't get absorbed in 15 minutes just pull pour out these are good to go into containers I put them into my containers first because they warm up and they're easier to manage and then followed by the container plantings these are gonna go out into the earth welcome to the rustic garden today I want to show you how you can start peas indoors about 10 to 14 days before you might put them out into the ground and the reason you want to start peas indoors is number one you can and it's good to save you really 14 to 21 days about 3 weeks of time versus waiting for the ground to warm up to 40 degrees waiting for the moisture in the soil to kind of drain out it's always a really - wet in really early early spring or late winter peas seeds themselves will rot if they're sitting in soil that's too soggy so starting them indoors is a great way to take care of those issues and by the time they get out into the ground your grounds not only going to be 40 degrees it'll probably be warmer you'll would have been able to work the soil and it really will work out well for you and you can also put them into containers raised beds the ground all kinds of stuff and I'm gonna show you how to do that over the year first thing is I'm gonna grow about I don't know 20 varieties of peas this year so I'll give you guys updates on how each variety goes and what's happening they're good to go into raised beds I get to go into containers I'm going to put them all over the place because I really love them and I'm like you know why do I only plant 40 plants or something like that let's do more I started this variety of pee this is a purple potted pee I forget the name of it it might have only been purple pot but I bought them on eBay these were started on January I'm sorry on February 10th today is February 23rd thirteen days worth of growth you can see all of the roots and there used to be a myth that I believe that you couldn't start peas and doors because the roots damaged these and you can see they're just coming out of the peat pot that would be true if you started them in plastic cells start them in peat pots and I'll show you how to do that these will also get transplanted into containers today in a separate video they've just grown incredibly fast I've got snow outside I can't get them outside into containers so I'm gonna do them in the house so to set this up one I recommend peat pots for starting peas that are you go into your containers that are going to the ground if you're not going to do a whole mass of them you can put them into styrofoam cups you just label them I like the styrofoam cups you can put them into the peat cups or you can buy a set up like this it'll give you three six nine twelve fifteen eighteen containers like this it cost about four dollars and fifty cents for the whole set up or just go with cups fifty one cups for about a dollar twenty five you can't really go wrong with that now to set them up let me just start with a couple of things first this variety is called the Burpee nut early this is a shelling pea there's three main types I did a video on it this is a pot that you cannot eat so you're growing it just for the peas this is a sugar-snap Oregon I'm sorry sugar pop this is a flat pea with immature peas on the inside it's more like what you see in Chinese food so just like the Chinese stir-fry Pig and then this is a sugar snap which is a plump fully developed P and an edible pod so I'm gonna do probably 20 different peas in these three categories this is how I set them up right on the on a popsicle stick write down what you have also put one in here in case this falls off you don't want to lose what you're doing and believe me I've dropped stuff before I've knocked stuff down and lost track of what's what the peas are pretty large in this setup all I do is fill this up with potting soil this is not starting mix this is Miracle Grow potting mix you can save yourself some money it's about to let me see I actually got it right down here it's a two cubic feet of moistened and fertilized potting soil it's not as fine as your starting mix you don't need to plant these and starting mix potting mix is just fine so I fill up the pea trays and then I just pressed down pretty deeply almost to the bottom and that's where I'm gonna drop the two peas into let me finish it over here on the table so just press down nice and deep piece really want to be planted about an inch to two inches deep depending what kind of soil you have can't quite get an inch in these so in each hole two peas press them in there up a little bit too high pisa come out of packs like this will probably both germinate if your peas are a year old germination drops pretty quick I suggest you store them in a ziploc bag I'm not going to do all of these to kind of save you some video time but once they're in about that deep throw some soil on it and these will be watered in label and make sure your sticks are in there and you're good to go these are going to be sugar snaps and if you're not growing a whole lot of peas or you're putting them into containers or you don't need to get them into the ground really putting them in these cups is the best way to go to peas whatever container you want to use just like that the cups I like because I can write right on there what they are they're a lot cheaper than these and the peat pots I don't really use it this size they tend to get too moldy and they're just a problem they're they're fine for peace because you could put them right in your ground but I don't grow my tomatoes or anything in that they all go into this this or actually recycle containers so once they're in there you want to press them down about an inch don't worry if you go past that in the case of the peat pots you would just plant them right in the ground the peas that are in the styrofoam cups and these plastic containers you'll just be able to pop them out and plant them and then once they're done just drop some soil into the holes make sure everything is covered up water them in and in ten to 14 days you're gonna have different germinating or different rates of germination for your peas you definitely want to make sure this pea gets into a container very soon I'm gonna do that in the next video but just keeping kind of ballpark idea somewhere between 10 to 14 10 to 20 days is when you want to start these indoors so that you can get them outside and it will really save you about three weeks of a growing time so that you can get your peas you know to your to your tail welcome to the rest of garden today I want to talk to you about acclimating your peas to the outdoor temperatures to the outdoor Sun and a process that I use you have to acclimate all of your transplants that you're growing inside to the outdoors because they're not used to the Sun and basically what what happened is today's a very sunny day finally thank you the Sun will actually sunburn bleach out the leaves kill the leaves and these plants will be damaged they have no tolerance to the UV rays or anything like that so you slowly have to introduce them to the Sun outdoors they'll also get used to the cold weather they also get used to the wind as your peas are growing in all your seedlings grill it's a good idea to run your hand through them that will help them stimulate it will stimulate the stems make them think that it's windy and they will actually toughen up and be a whole lot stronger the peas today's March 7th appease have been growing between two let's see that's March twenty or that's February 24th so they're kind of tall and these were started on the 28th I'd like to get the peas out about this size into the Sun for an hour to each day that will toughen them up that will harden them off that will get them used to the outdoors so I would put them out for an hour or two on a sunny day like today maybe a little bit longer if the day is cloudy but then bring him in and then they stay indoors you know for the rest of the day now these are getting a little bit tall I would love to have these in the ground right now or get them into containers right now but I can't because when you look out here you can see what my area looks like so four p's as soon as they sprout up try and get them into the Sun for an hour to each day this way when they're finally ready to go out into your yard you don't have to then spend another week of getting these used to the outdoor you've already done it as they were growing inside and peas really handle acclimation or hardening off well if you do it in this type of about two tablespoons of organic fertilizer just put the two tablespoons in the top and this is old soil peas don't need much in a way of soil prep you can put them into your container as soon as the container soil is no longer frozen and you don't really even need a lot of fertilizer if any because peas are able to fix their own nitrogen through the root system and they can pull the nitrogen out of the air it's this easy you can pack peas in here too we're gonna put six holes in there two peas in each hole you'd be surprised - and how many peas can be put into a small space you can thin them if you want to - one per hole and I recommend somewhere between five and ten peas will do perfectly fine in here as long as you can keep it moist your peas are planted they're gonna need something to crawl up these are actually sugar and piece of they're dwarf they're only gonna get I'm somewhere between I think two and four feet tall they don't need a lot of climbing but most of your peas will just use your tomato cages because it's way too early for planting tomatoes anyway drop a cage in and that sets up one container that loosened up the soil to about four inches deep just with my hand one or two tablespoons of fertilizer in a space about you know that wide and then just drop in your transplants these are the plastic cells and I was telling you make sure you open up these bottoms before you seed start so that the root system comes out you can see that it's a little bit curled just loosen it up and you can just drop them in just like that put the soil maybe this much over where the level is right here for the seed starts precedent and you're good to go to do straight these again make sure that your soil is draining well and you can do these one inch apart one inch deep two inches apart however you really want to do it peas really grow well they don't mind being packed together and you would just go ahead and just drop them in you know anywhere from one to two inches even three inches apart whatever you feel like doing they're going to grow as long as your soil is draining well once you get to that or once you finish planting them the biggest pest for me are really rabbits rabbits will come down and just cheer down all of my peas piece of chicken wire lay it across your seed starts even though transplants they will grow through the spaces here rabbits do not like crawling on this because your feet get stuck and they're not gonna mess with it so just let the peas grow up through the spacing in the chicken wire and again don't forget to drop in some sticks tomato cages whatever you want to use that I have is if you have containers outside because piece fix their own nitrogen they really pretty much take care of themselves as long as you don't have totally spent soil coming out of the cold of winter pour some boiling water into your containers outside that will warm the soil through that kills off any kind of eggs that have been laid in there and that really gets your container quickly within you know half an hour ready for planting inside if you're starting fresh when you're starting with fresh soil you want to use potting mix you don't need anything special in this case I mean using a miracle girl potting mix that does have fertilizer in it you don't have to use that but definitely use a potting mix sometimes I use my own don't think you have to do anything crazy and fill this up with starting mix it's just too expensive so when your peas have been growing somewhere between ten to twenty days and again these have only been growing for almost two weeks but look at the root system these are purple potted Peas he do extremely well in contrast these are grade Worf peas that I started at the same time and they're just starting to break through a little bit of a root system so I can't say you know plant these exactly in ten days into containers but when they get to four inches tall they're really ready to go and when you see root systems like that they're ready to go and peas are not as fragile as you think I used to think that you can't start peas indoors so all I'm gonna do is cut out five plants there's ten here so far we're going and go into the cell well may have lost one they are a bit tangled well that looks fine I put two peas per cell you can do one or two it's not going to matter to the pea you can plan a lot into this container this is actually ten plants in my mind I was thinking five plants but there's two in each so I'm just gonna do four you can plant somewhere between four and eight peas in a container you can even do a little bit more all you're gonna do is make sure you tear the peat pot a little bit without disturbing the roots you want to fold down the top of the peat pot if that sticks above the soil on a hot day will actually wick water away from the root system this whole thing will dry out it will harm the plant so you want the peat ops to be buried again there's the root system there's about three inches here you can add soil if you need to three inches let you really water it put a nice planning Basin I mean a planting hole in work let's see it's gonna be hard to see work the root system in a little bit like that so that it's not being smashed but kind of sitting in a hole and then sort of fill around it and then just gently president I got to do that again you know drop it in if that's the hole let's just say that's the hole you're putting it in like this not so that it's not smashed but the roots are dangling and then you just backfill around it so that the soil collapses around the roots forgot the roll the peat top down on that roll it down same thing dig a hole and it doesn't have to be perfect you could you know really just drop them in here and smash the root and it's good to grow but take a little bit of care a little bit less of a shock on the plant they're gonna do better now let it roll the peach shale down on that one either but you can see the shale is covered the plants are covered whole of soil in here just to make sure they're well covered that leaves about two inches two or three inches will let you water these plants really easily you can just fill it up and let it soak in really important you know maybe a dime size a little bit smaller at least one hole if not two right in the bottom of the container you can put holes in the bottom but if you have a wood deck like mine the water drains out the bottom it stays damp under there and leaves a really nice green algae and moldering under it so I like the water to drain out the side then the Sun hits it dries up the wall one of the things you want to keep in mind with pieces that they are frost tolerant which means they can handle 29 30 31 degree weather just for a night of frost but they can't really stay frozen its February here as I said and nights are below 30 they're not going to survive out there but I can start them inside I can put them in a bucket and I can move the bucket in and out of the house to get Peas earlier as the season progresses or as winter progresses and the ground is no longer frozen peas also run into this issue is that when you plant them in the ground that's cold 40 degrees soggy or you're getting a lot of rain for a week those seeds will germinate but then they usually mold and die so this is one way to really get peas started into a five-gallon container and out into your lab press a good press down about you're not really going to go an inch but almost a half an inch and they're not going to do all of them but you get the picture drop in one piece heed what I'm dropping them everywhere make sure they're down about a half an inch so that they look like this and then just cover them with dirt put them in your cell flat bottom water and in about three weeks you're going to end up with peas that look like this and they grew nicely they're ready to go in and you want to catch the peas when the roots start coming out the bottom even though they're pretty Hardy you don't want to damage the plant pulling the root out so once they start coming through here you have to think about getting them into the container same thing with this one and I'm going to go with the biggest peas now and just gently squeeze out the plug you don't it should come up easily like that yeah you don't want to snap the pea off they are very fragile and you can see the roots right in there in a bucket you can do four to eight plants I'm gonna put five into here and I'm just trying to take out the biggest plants biggest seedlings be as gentle as you can with them and you can see the roots aren't getting disturbed that much they're ready to be transplanted and because I'm putting them in a container I can harden them off to the elements which means putting them out for a couple of hours with peas and then bringing them back inside so they can get used to the elements you're going to want to plant your pea right to about here you don't want to go up too high and all you're doing is digging a hole dropping the pinyon filling it around the side and press it neat pressing it in now the soil I'm using here has a lot of starting mix in it only because my bags outside were frozen and I didn't have a chance to get to the store but you can use any garden soil mix it has a lot of organic matter in it like peat moss I'm going to just show you something with that pee in a second so I'm putting in four peas in here just dropping it in and you can see you know they look great I will put it outside for an hour or two for a couple of days bring it back inside once the peas harden off to the elements outdoors I'll leave this outside as long as the temperatures are over thirty degrees let them grow if I'm going to get nights of hard frost or even any kind of frost I'm going to bring the pea bucket in I just wanted to show you what it looks like germinating there's the pink there's the sprout and here's the roots that come out and I'm gonna see if I can save this one after showing you that but the pea itself is what tends to germinate and mold up when you have wet soggy soil so by starting your peas and doors you get a nice 70 degree temperature they grow nicely in seed cells they transplant easily to five gallon container welcome to the rest of garden today's June 4th and this is one area where I grew peas and what I wanted to do today will show you how well these people ants grew and then I'm gonna cut in the video where I actually planted these from transplant peas peas that I grew in peat pots and I just want to disorder dispel the rumor that you can't grow peas and either the plastic seed starting trays or peat pots like I did or even styrofoam cups and Transplant them into the ground some people say they don't like to be transplanted well that's not true as long as you take care and transplanting them they do perfectly fine these are Cascadia Peas today again is June 4th and they went into the ground somewhere probably towards the end of March but they were seed started in peat pots and grew about two weeks in them before I got them out here maybe actually about three weeks and then I got them into the ground and that three weeks of growth really saves you time and helps you put in establish plants when you put peas in the ground in March when it's still cold or rainy they do have a tendency sometimes not to germinate or to rot so using transplants from either the peat pots or from your styrofoam cups from the plastic seed starting trays you can really get more peas into the ground get a jump again on the beginning of the season and you can see how well they're really doing there's plenty of peas on there that I need to pick over the next couple of days it's starting to get warm here so the plants are gonna start dying out but these are planted in the ground they're nice and tall and just comparison I have a five gallon container in there and it's the same variety of peas they didn't grow as tall so peace sometimes don't do as well height wise when they're in containers but there's still a lot of production on them so this was a very successful crop of peas and now I'm gonna cut in the video and show you how I transplanted them in their how to get the peas that I talked about growing in pea pots out into your garden today is March 29th and the last two weeks out in my area it's been too cold the nights have been like 25 even sometimes 20 degrees and even though keys would survive they weren't really good agro so I held them in my greenhouse a little bit longer than I want these are Cascadia snow peas that were planted on February 23rd if you're going to do this method if you want to time it so the peas grow in these pots for about three weeks four weeks at the longest these have been growing almost five weeks and you can see the roots are pretty long there's sort of a myth that says you can't start peas in containers and put them into the yard into the garden because they don't like having their roots disturb and that's true these are a little bit long but we're not going to disturb them we're just going to build us a trench drop them in completely flat and then fill around it the way that I set up my planting area is first this is about a six foot planning area you can't see all of it I turned I put in just make sure it's fairly loose and then you build a trench and the trench should be deep enough that the peas obviously get covered but also that the peat moss gets covered you don't want to need the peat moss trace sticking above the soil that will actually wick water away and dry out the root systems and you can see I'm just dropping them down let the roots lie wherever they are let me move that and I'm going to plant this whole row and I'll come back and show you how I use cut branches for my fruit trees for trellises and also I have to put a chicken wire cage over this because I have rabbits that will come and just sheer these down so once you get the trench set up you can see it's going to be about level to the garden soil just filling around it gently you don't really want any gaps and drop the soil around it make sure that peat moss if you have like areas where you have separation between the peat rays just make sure you fill it in you don't want any air gaps in there and just work the soil slowly around the trees and that's all you really need to do it's raining today so I'm not going to water it in you fertilized it lightly peace fix their own nitrogen and they don't need much in a way of fertilizer so this is how you get a jump start on a season especially in my area when it was twenty degree 25 degree nights if I put direct seed in here the seeds would have just set and probably rowdy we even got a couple of sneeze there vegetables that you can grow in cool weather so you have a a season in the spring when you plant them in the spring summer comes it gets too hot but then you can plant them again in the fall it's August fourth peas are a great vegetable if you've purchased peas from a store you've never tasted fresh peas and what I mean by that is a pea once picked the sugar starts breaking down so even if it gets to you in two or three days at your grocery store you've never tasted a fresh pea peas are easy to grow I'm going to show you how to grow them in a container and I hope that you give this a try I'm gonna plant sugar pot peas these are the flat pieces you often see in stir Fry's there's different varieties I have videos that talk about different kinds of peas but these are gonna be sugar pod type and a pack of seeds cost you about $2 this bucket cost $4 at Home Depot one thing you want to do to prep it is you want to drill holes in it if you don't have a drill you can use a nail and a hammer but you want to put in 15 or 20 holes no plants like to sit in water so this is a drainage hole so when it rains you have drainage and the water will come out of the bucket now again please remember like the cool weather even though it's August we're going to give them four weeks of growing to start growing in a container when the cool weather comes they'll be about this tall they'll start to take off the flower and you have great fresh Peas so here we have a bucket to cost you $4 if you want to go to your bakery to fast food places buy you any kind of store that preps food you can get these buckets for free and you can save some money now you can fill this with soil from your garden or your yard you can mix it in you can really put as much you can put any kind of dirt in here peas have a root system that sort of fixed nitrogen and give them nutrients themselves not all vegetables do that so peas are really really easy to grow but I bought this soil this was four dollars a bag it's one cubic foot and all you do to grow peas is fill your bucket up fill it nearly to the top make sure you settle it down pack it in you want to go a little more to the top than that a [Applause] little more and you can see the planting base is pretty firm that's one thing you don't want loose soil or your peas will drop down I'm gonna have you put in 8 Peas and if they all come up you're gonna remove the four weakest but you only if you're just starting out for the first time with gardening start with four pea plants they're a lot easier to manage but you're going to go down about an inch just make one two three four five six seven eight and what you're doing is you're planning 8 PS because sometimes they all don't germinate and rather than wait you know for four pieces that come up that don't you put in 8 you sent out if you have too many and if you're not sure don't worry about the depth depths I don't want you to stress out if you put the P in you know this far it's gonna grow if you put it in that deep it's good to grow just make 8 holes look for peas in mine crack storm is actually in a way hopefully I get done drop the peas in to in that hole don't worry about it remember you're gonna send this out to 4 peas when they get about this tall when they're about 4 inches tall just cover them up this soil happens to have fertilizer in it you cannot you know use the soil out of your yard that doesn't have any fertilizer but you can use a liquid fertilizer to give them a little boost when they're growing but any kind of soil don't stress about what kind of soil to put in there just get a container fill it up about this tall put in 8 P seeds the other thing that you want to do these bamboo poles are about 5 foot tall and I got them at Home Depot you're going to just put in four of them because peas have hollow root systems are I'm sorry hollow stems and your very fragile so they have to climb up something because if they hang over they're gonna snap and break off so you put this in here your peas will climb onto this you can also if I can grab this you can buy some jute or string whatever you have and you would just tie it every couple of inches like this going up and that will give you peace something else to climb on welcome to the rustic garden today and keep it simple I want to show you how to grow fall peas it's about 95 degrees right now I'm sweating it's too hot for peas if they were gonna be producing and you know you're trying to harvest them but it's not too hot to get them started in fact now that it's July 17th in most areas on the Maryland zone seven you want to start your fall peas now they need a good 70 days of non frosting weather to fully mature pea plants actually the leaves can take a frost but the flowers can so if you don't start these early enough like right now your peas are going to get too sighs they're gonna flower they get to start forming and if a frost comes it's actually gonna kill out the flowers and the peas but the leaves would be okay so you want to start now and I'm gonna show you how to do it in two different containers the setup is simple we're not going to use a lot of fertilizer there's two peas that I recommend and you can get these at Home Depot right now you can get them online if you need to just get them sent to you quickly because you really do want to get them started now these are melting sugar peas or snow peas and these are basically the flat peas that you get in like Chinese food or you see in Chinese food anytime that it says snow pea it's the flat shell that's edible and you don't really get mature peas inside of there the other variety that I really recommend is the Cascadia sugar snap and this is a completely edible pod with full mature peas in there so you just break this off you can eat the piece straight both of these to be eaten right off the vine the snow pot are the snow peas and that's the key snow peas our flat pods with nut with peas that do not mature inside so you're just basically getting the pod the sugar snap is a fully mature pea inside of a pot and the pot is edible and it's two different varieties the Cascadia is delicious if you can only get one grab the Cascadia now to set this up use any kind of dirt that you want peas fix their own nitrogen they have a root system that works with the relationship with bacterial microbes and they fix their own nitrogen they don't need a lot of fertilizer they don't need good soil we're just going to use a water soluble fertilizer I'll show you how to do that 10 gallon container a hole in here your worst enemy for peas is having a container that doesn't drain if it fills up with water the roots are gonna rot the peas are good a dot so about two inches up put a hole in here no holes on the bottom you can do that if you want I'd like to have a little bit of a reserve in my container so when it's hot like today water stays in it and this soil won't dry out these are containers of basically used soil that's dry these are potato vines I'm just gonna leave them in there I've already harvested the potatoes out of here and again any kind of soil this is top soil I have a neighbor who is moving and they just gave me their extra stuff they don't want to take it with them plain old topsoil all you want to do is just fill up your container the soil does not matter that much there's even chunks of clay or something in here I don't know what it is even rocks I have some garden soil that has more peat moss in it a little bit wet it was in the rain last night I'm just gonna mix that into the top so that it holds a little bit more moisture because when your seeds you're germinating you want them to stay moist okay you can't get much easier than that it was used dirt that I used for the potatoes some plain old topsoil that has nothing in it and then a little bit of my leftover garden soil that has more peat moss an organic matter in it okay you're set up now in something this size you can really put in easily 8 to 12 P plants and all I'm going to do is drop one two three four five six seven eight on the outside nine ten we put these down and they're just around the circle push them down about one inch I told you this is not difficult if you've always wanted to grow peas now is the time it is really really simple I'll do a follow-up video on this too so that you can see the growth and the harvest all right ten peep seeds are in here cover it up you're gonna need to trellis on something any kind of stick you can use your tomato cages just put them in now these are going to get almost 5 feet tall so these sticks aren't going to be tall enough but it's a good start and over time I'll just put some string around here and the peas will trellis right up this let me move this out of the way and I'm going to show you an even easier way let me take these out so that it's not blocking my face but you'll definitely need something to trellis and again go ahead and just put a tomato cage in there now this is a brand new set up you know soil seeds that's a 10 gallon container this is a five gallon container I have plenty of videos on growing peas in these containers I want to show you how easy it is this was a tomato plant it is to get piece started for the Fall take out all the old plant plants weeds this was a silvery fir tomato pluck the soil up a little bit I'm gonna put just a little bit more in because I lost some plants out mix it in a little bit again I'm not adding any fertilizer peas don't need calcium they don't need all these amendments looks just like that six seeds four five six you could do more if you wanted press them in one inch now you've converted your old tomato bucket for your old vegetable bucket into fall peas press them down about one-inch again you need to put some steaks in there for them to trellis up and I wanted to show you how they've grown over the last five to seven weeks these are container peas that I planted in March late March and I basically put in anywhere from three to five peas into the containers these are my containers that overwintered you also see lettuce that I planted some greens that overwintered but I did plant the peas end of March and they're ready to harvest you can see several peas in this container it's supported by the tomato cages by the time these peas die out the tomatoes will be ready for the cages so you can reuse those I also have a structure made out of bamboo to make a teepee supports for the peas but you can just see all the peas that are ready when you harvest the pea make sure you just break the tip off this part with your fingernail if you tug on peas you're going to break the plant the plant is hollow so they're very very fragile so just grab the tip of the pea that's attached to the stem and break it off you can see all the peas that are on here peas grow great in containers here's a large pea and there's probably you know 3040 peas ready all over the place and you can see them growing everywhere I get up to types I have the edible pea pod and the standard pea and you can see these containers a couple five gallon buckets but these containers mostly were planted towards the end of March it's May 21st now coming around the back you can see the five gallon buckets these are the peas that I planted for the video and you can see the plants are smaller and that's probably because in there I have in the center plant here I think I have eight peas planted same with this one but you can see there's plenty of peas these are the edible pea pods and they're just packed full of peas these aren't quite as big they were planted after the peas that I just showed you there's a lot of pods that are ready again they're supported with the wire cage and you can just see all the peas that are ready now one of the things I talked about is if you put you can put anywhere from really three peas to eight peas in a five-gallon bucket but if you put in more plants like I do you can see the dried out leaves in there that's because I did forget to water it for a day the bucket did dry out and it did harm the plant now these peas aren't as large as the ones I showed you up there on my deck and you have to do a little bit of mess if you put for instance in a five gallon bucket you put in four pea plants and those four P plants tend to grow larger and say they produce a hundred peas each 100 P pods you get 400 peas if you put eight plants in that only grow 70 pods per plant and the plants are smaller yeah they are smaller but you do end up with 8 times 7 560 pods of peas versus 400 so there's a balance somewhere between the number of peas that you put in the pot in the container and let that plant grow to full size too kind of crowding the plants in there yet still getting a yield or harvest it's greater than maybe putting three or four peas in there now that was a lot to say let me go over it real quick as I eat this pea pod the other thing as I plant some peas directly in the ground so by the time I eat all those the peas along this fence will be blooming and I can pick those in probably three or four weeks and back up here to the container peas on the deck these are a little bit stronger so just to recap I mean a little bit bigger is if you put fewer peas in a five-gallon container the plants will get bigger taller and produce more Peas however if you crowd more peas into the container the plants will be smaller the plants won't yield as much per plant but the overall yield will be greater than a couple of points welcome to the rest of garden today I want to give you a full update on the peas that I planted Oh about two or three months ago these are all started in peat pots indoors and transplanted into the containers I'm also going to show you my ground planted peas and I'm going to harvest all of these and then show you each harvest by a variety of pea and match them to their seed packs so you have an idea of what you might want to plant next year first thing is container peas work really really well peas do fix their own nitrogen with the root system that has nodules on it that work with bacteria and they can pull the nitrogen actually out of the air but in the container you can get in there's one two three four I don't know 12 or more vines in each of those oh there's a ladybug you can see it way back there so you can really pack in the peas they don't mind being packed into a space because they do pull their own nitrogen out of the atmosphere I gave these a trellis scene let's talk about that first here are peas that I intentionally did not trellis and you can see that they hang over there early perfection variety and they're really really fragile in that if they got knocked or pulled the stems are hollow they would break off so you do want to tell us your peas and I tell us them pretty much by many different methods this is a tomato cage in here this is for the taller variety a couple of sticks bamboo some jute and you just want to contain them so that they get growing going upward and then they start the tendrils will latch on to each other and it just makes a nice mass of peas that will go straight up to the top of your cage and you do have to pay attention to the size if you get full size peas you're gonna have to do something with these tomato cages just like this and it work perfectly well the peas are going to start dying out if you notice down at the bottom they're starting to yellow and that just comes from the increase in heat and also the age of the piece so their process is pretty much normal but they're just loaded I mean there are hundreds of peas on all the plants so I'm going to harvest these and show you them you can just use plain balls like this I only use two of them and to get them started I start with some jute down at the bottom and that's again to get the mass growing upward and once they all kind of latch together they just stay with the poles and go all the way up same thing here some more poles really really basic trellising but you definitely want to tell them and just look at all the peas like I said I'm gonna go harvest those let me go show you the peas that I'm growing down in are actually my earth both early perfection when without a trellis and one with a fancier trellis you can certainly use that and you can just see all the peas are hanging nicely much easier to get to when it's trellis than trying to get down to the peas down there but trellising does make a difference and I just want to give you fix this example of the same variety one without a trellis and one trellis with something a little more fancy than sticks and tomatoes just set up a chicken wire fence like this and just grow your peas straight up that way again these are my earth planted our earth bed planted peas and these two were also planted from peat pots I didn't start any peas this year straight in the ground and the reason I might do that is because when peas are able a plan to get outside the ground conditions aren't always the best for the scenes to actually germinate and a lot of times they rot because the soil is cold and wet so if you can get them germinated inside in peat pots and then put them out into your garden your peas will get established start growing much quicker coming around this side this is just a mess of peas and here one of my favorite varieties is this purple potted and it's doing really well and it's actually my tallest pea plant out there and that is taken care of by a tomato cage some bamboo poles and actually that's my cucumber trellis back there I was hoping that it would attach to that but it didn't but again they've grown up through the cage attached to the sticks attached to themselves and the wind will not knock those down there also have more peas shorter varieties on smaller stakes growing in my railing and one thing that I did to keep rabbits off is I let them grow straight up through chicken wire let me bring you around here there's one more place that I have peas and that's in my sunken containers and these are a shorter variety I use these sunken containers the bottoms are cut out for cucumbers and peas and probably green beans this year and they're just truffle it's Chelsea on a couple of bamboo posts not even any string or jute or anything like that just give them something to hold on to and they will stay up three main varieties of peas you can break these down into subcategories and get more but you have your sugar or snow peas which are the immature peas in a flat pod the pod and P are completely edible and these are typically what go in snow it's off yeah go into a stir Fry's and these are your sugar or your snow type peas and these are a mammoth melting sugar and Snowbird two varieties that I do recommend then you have your snap peas anything that has the name snap in it is a snap pea typically and these are the peas that when you break them they have a full shell completely edible and amateur sized P and they get their name because when you break them they snap so you got the snap peas you got your sugar snow peas and then you have your shelling peas and these aren't quite ready yet these mature first usually these come in second and then the shelling peas come next and you can't eat the shell that's why they're called shelling but when you open them up they've got great peas inside that you can just take out pop in your mouth welcome to the rest of garden today I want to talk to you about a couple of ways to trellis peas peas have hollow stems they're very fragile they need to climb climbing makes it easier for you to pick the peas it also provides them with support so they're not damaged by the wind one way that you can trellis peas is you can grow them in buckets or even in the ground and you can use tomato cages for the trellis peas will easily grow up it you can see and you can easily get to all the peas that are growing in there another way that you can trellis peas is just by a couple of steaks and stringing them and you want to string them by putting you know a line of string this is actually jute every couple of inches you can go up a little bit higher as the peas get more mature and you can kind of weave them in and out of there but this structure looks a little bit flimsy but it is strong enough to support the peas the wind won't damage them and that's one way to trellis them I also planted some peas in the ground over here I provided them a little bit of string to climb but they're actually clinging to each other and they're climbing on some of the blackberry brambles so you can mix peas in with some of your other fruit plants or you can even grow them up trees they're only around for about eight weeks they won't compete and it's one way to tell us stuff you can build something a little more formal over here I have chicken wire this will also double as a cucumber trellis in a couple of weeks but you can see the peas will grow perfectly fine right up the chicken wire and over on this side I have another string trellis but these are dwarf Peas so I didn't need to use as much string or I didn't need as big as trellis and they'll only grow about this tall welcome to the rest of garden today I just want to introduce you to Tom Thumb peas there is 6-inch variety pea it's a full piece so that means you can't eat the pot so you're really letting it grow until the peas mature to full size and then you're gonna take the peas out these are again a six inch PV what I found is the pods or the vines tend to grow maybe five to ten inches tall and you can see that there's a lot of peas in there they've been in a row box for about I don't know about sixty days and one thing is is you can certainly grow peas of this variety in a flower box it's only you know four inches maybe five inches deep so you don't need a big container for them and for those of you that may have limited space you cannot have some fresh Peas by just growing the Thompson variety over here I've been growing them in a two and a half gallon bucket and I think there's six to eight plants in there and these seem to do a little bit more and that's probably because of the depth of the container so even though they grew over here in this flower box it's probably a good idea to have at least a depth of about this far when growing this variety they look a little more Hardy and you can see that the vines are longer and it tend to be more peas on there this is what they look like when you pop them open again these have been growing about 60 days and here's a mature block to the rustic garden today I want to show you how you can collect pcs and basically by doing this you can save yourself some money you can also have seeds to trade with other people and if you want to you can even sell them online so you can make a buck and use that money for other things in your garden these are my purple potted Peas that I've been growing for several years I actually forgot where I got them from and forgot the original name but it's a nice deep purple pot that I really like to grow they taste great they grow well and you really stand out in the garden they're kind of cool looking you want to collect them in a ziplock bag right away put down on it what type of rider you have purple potted Peas and I don't know if you can see in this corner but there's just a little pinch of insect dust you want to make sure you put a pinch Seck dust in your bag because there is a chance that insects usually beetles could lay eggs on your peas they also a chance that this can happen with beans too but the insect dust will take care of that because if they hatch what they're going to eat are your pea seeds or your peas that I got from those plants if you're going to save these from the food source for a food source it's the same process go ahead and collect them let them dry out just like these peas were doing but instead of putting insect dust in there you certainly don't want to eat that go ahead and freeze them for 48 hours and that should take care of any kind of insects or you know egg related problems and stuff like that that are associated with your peas or your beans starting to split today's the 24th this was my spring planting of peas he was probably went to ground in March or April I should have probably harvest them about two weeks ago but I was on vacation and of course got busy but you want to wait till the pea plant is totally dry when it's dry the pods will be dry all the way through a little bit of black mold on there is fine and you can hear the sound I mean they're completely dry just take the peas out and put them right into your bag

Channel: Gary Pilarchik (The Rusted Garden)

Views: 1,922,917

Keywords: Vegetable, Gardening, peas, containers, indoors, ground, trellising, planting

Id: 7U5Pm_CpKzk

Length: 70min 9sec (4209 seconds)

Published: Sun Apr 01 2018