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The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers

Bush vs. Pole...Peas

The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers

Epic Gardening

Education, Home & Garden, How To, Leisure

4.81.6K Ratings

🗓️ 11 February 2020

⏱️ 5 minutes

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Summary

Did you know bush peas existed? Most of us think of peas as simply a climbing plant, but there are some productive bush varieties to consider in the garden.

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0:00.0

What is going on everyone? I hope you are having an amazing day, night, evening,

0:19.6

morning, whatever the case may be. But today we're talking about peas now most of us when we think

0:26.5

of peas we think of peas that climb right but you can you can grow peas that don't climb. You can get bush peas. So bush peas can be a really good idea if you don't want to use up the vertical space for some reason.

0:44.0

Let's say you have a very limited garden and you don't want to grow a ton of peas that

0:48.5

will then shade something else out in the garden.

0:51.2

You can go ahead and grow bush peas. Bush peas are typically

0:54.8

ready to harvest sooner than pole peas but they don't bear peas as long as

1:00.5

pole peas do. Pole peas then conversely are more productive,

1:04.9

but they also need a trellis for support.

1:08.6

For example, you can get something like Goliath.

1:11.4

That's a very productive and disease-resistant

1:13.6

snow pee that will grow about six feet tall. Then you can get something like an

1:18.0

organ sugar pod 2 that will grow about 3 feet tall and then you can get something like night maestro those are

1:26.7

those are bush varieties they don't really grow that tall at all maybe about a

1:29.8

foot 18 inches or so in the same way that a bush bean would grow, which for the

1:36.0

record is my preference when growing beans. I really like to grow bush

1:40.0

beans. I'm growing some right now. I'm growing about 40 different beans in my green stock

1:45.9

garden, which is a vertical stackable tower, and I can just rotate that throughout the day,

1:50.8

and my Bush beans are going crazy. I you know a lot is funny because I

1:54.4

posted that up and a lot of people were like well why would you ever post beans

1:57.8

in a a vertical system they're gonna need to climb and I think a lot of people just forget that you can you

2:04.7

can plant a bush variety of both of these types of plants.

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