When you are growing your own snap peas in your own garden, what you will receive are fresh snap peas that are both amazingly healthy and taste much better. The snap peas grow best during cold weather and moist growing conditions. You can grow your own snap peas garden within your home area. This is a great project to be done with your family members on the weekends or even during weekdays. They will feel the thrill to watch the snap peas grow and yield the fruits. Think about the abundance of snap pea’s harvest will surely make them excited! Here some tips on how to grow the snap peas.
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Temperature
Any temperature above 30 degrees Celsius will affect the snap peas flowers badly and there will be less yield. The best temperature is about 7 to 24 degrees Celsius. Snap peas prefer sunny locations, so make sure they got the sun most of the day.
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Sowing
The snap peas usually sown in cool temperature, either in spring or fall. March and May is a good time to plant the snap peas and from September to mid-January on the tablelands. The soil should be well drained with pH between 5.8 and 6.8. Mix some wood ash, or compost into the soil to for the place to grow the snap peas. Make small trenches after working the soil to make it more light and oxidized. These trenches measured about 1.5 inches deep and 30 inches apart. Put 1 or 2 snap pea’s seed into the earth about 2 inches deep. Then, water the seeds and the germination will take place about 10 days. As soon as the plants are about one or two inches tall thin, they will be just one seedling per every two inches. Make a snap peas trellis when some of the snap peas need some support. This is prior to their nature to climb and might break off with the wind in your area. You can use tomato trellis which are placed about 20 cm apart. Also, you can use chicken wire and twine to keep the peas off the ground, free from any disease and safe from the wind.
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Maintenance
You don’t have to water the snap peas during the growing season, but keep them moist all the time. Add in some fertilizer with water every 2 or 3 weeks if your soil is not naturally nutritious. You can know if your snap peas are getting enough nutrients by looking at the color. Pale green means that your snap peas are having low nitrogen. Keep your snap peas garden by hoeing and picking the weeds by hand if necessary.
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Harvesting
8 to 10 days after the pollination, you will see that the pods are filling out which means that you can harvest the snap peas. To harvest the peas, break them from the stem carefully and not to injure the plant they come from. You can pick snap peas in two to five picks in total and the pod will still be tender even if the pod is fully developed.
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