How to Grow Peas from A-Z

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🗓️ 1 February 2018

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

Have you ever wondered how to grow peas?

Peas are one of those tastes that embodies spring: a little crisp, a little sweet. Knowing how to grow peas means we always have access to that wonderful flavor. But peas have an interesting history, too!

Before agriculture was developed by humans, peas were a staple food that hunter-gatherer peoples would forage regularly.

Interestingly, the Romans believed that fresh peas were poisonous, so they dried all peas before consumption. This was the common practice until a French gardener under the reign of King Louis XIV developed a pea hybrid called petits pois.

These smaller, delicious fresh peas exploded in popularity with the king, and thus spread to worldwide appeal.

While we think of peas as a vegetable nowadays, biologically the pod is considered a fruit, and the peas themselves are seeds. All peas are considered to be part of the legume family, along with beans and other podded produce.

Without further ado, let’s dive into the world of growing Pisum sativum, the pea plant. We’ll go over how to grow peas, what environments are optimal, and even how to store them for eating later!

Learn More: How To Grow Peas: Everything You Need To Know (2018 Update)

Keep Growing,

Kevin

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0:00.0	What is up everyone? Welcome back to the epic gardening podcast. My name is Kevin. Today we're going to be talking about peas. Now peas are an interesting crop because
0:10.8	They are a crop that we have been eating for millennia.
0:17.0	Peas were a staple food that hunter-gatherer peoples would forage regularly.
0:21.0	And you know what something that's interesting that I found out about peas
0:24.0	is that Romans actually believed that fresh peas were poisonous so what they
0:27.5	did is they dried all their peas before they consume them and until a a French gardener under the reign of King Louis the 14th developed a
0:37.3	P-Hybrid called Petits Poise, I believe is how you pronounce it.
0:41.7	That is when they realized that actually you could eat peas fresh.
0:45.8	So they were not toxic. Now we think of peas as a vegetable, right? But botanically speaking,
0:51.7	that pod is actually considered the fruit of the plant and then the peas themselves are the seeds
0:56.6	So when we're eating peas we're actually eating the seeds of the pea plant which of course if you're a gardener
1:01.2	That's something you probably know but if you're new to gardening or just something you didn't know I thought that would be a fun fact for you.
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1:23.4	natural ingredients. Now what I like to do is I like to make a custom mix
1:28.1	although they do have some signature blends I like to make my own mix and in fact
1:31.8	we're actually partnering up and we're going to be doing an epic soil starter mix pretty soon, so stay tuned for that.
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1:44.0	Now before we get into the care for peas, let's talk about a couple of different varieties of peas that
1:48.7	you may want to consider growing. And so those are going to be broken up into English peas, snap peas, snow peas, right?
1:56.0	And so first let's talk about English peas.
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