Pea seeds: the best varieties and tips for growing

Do you want to do conservation? And do you know which grade is better to buy and how to plant pea seeds? Do you need a short excursion on the topic? This article will help you to understand the subtleties of care for legumes and grow selected peas in your garden.

Peas: a description of the culture

Representatives of the legume family - pea crops - belong to the group of frost-resistant vegetable crops. It is a climbing plant, in height reaching from 15 to 250 cm (depending on the variety). Flowers in form resemble small moths, have white or violet at the base of color. Seed sowing is carried out in the early spring, after waiting for warming up to +4 ... + 6 degrees Celsius.

Peas are best in a warm, windless and lighted area. When preparing a bed, it is enough to add organic or mineral fertilizers.

For sowing, any cultivated area with a high content of humus will fit, regardless of the culture that grew and fruited in this garden before.

Interesting! Peas are not too demanding for nitrogen.

Species variety of peas

There are more than a hundred kinds of peas, both natural and artificially hatched by Sellikce. All of them are used for certain purposes: for conservation, in cooking, in agriculture and other branches of the life of mankind. Seeds of peas, beans are divided into two groups: sugar and shelling. The first have tender and sweet beans, the so-called scapula. The leaves of this variety of peas retain their juiciness until the end of the wax period of ripeness.

The peculiarity of peas of sugar varieties, for example, "favorite", is that in the beans themselves there is no parchment layer. They are consumed whole food, as well as okra or okra.

There are two subgroups of sugar peas: soup and dessert.

Soup varieties of sugar peas: features

Fruits of soup varieties of nonperguminal peas differ in size: they are much smaller than in other varieties.

Pods (spatula) are used to prepare soups when seeds are in their infancy. The soup subspecies include pea seeds "favorite", "soup shovel-181", "Henry-15", "sugar ragweed", "sugar oregano".

Dessert sugar peas: recommended varieties

This subspecies is best suited for eating in fresh form. Only ripe varieties of sugar peas are full of juice and vitamins, they have excellent taste qualities. The fruits of dessert peas like to eat and adults and children.

Interesting! Pea blades are actively used in cooking. They cook delicious side dishes.

To get dessert scoops, it is recommended to use for seeds pea seeds "baby sugar", "sugar slider", "sugar honey", "Karaganda-1053".

Characteristics of peeling varieties of peas

The peculiarity of the peas of the varnished varieties lies in the presence of a leathery parchment interlayer on the inside of the leaf pods - this is an inedible layer.

Young beans peeled, and in the food they use still unripened seeds, calling them "green peas".

Among the variety of varnished varieties of peas, breeders distinguish the most productive pea seeds: "prince", "early-301", "winner", "excellent-33".

To universal varieties include peas "sugar pod". The fruits of this plant are suitable for use in food in both young and ripe form.

Peculiarities of sowing of pea seeds

Going to sow the seeds of peas for the first time, you need to know something.

Nodule bacteria have chosen the roots of peas as a fertile soil for their livelihoods. These bacteria actively absorb nitrogen.

When the pea is first planted, fertilizing the soil, a special preparation of the bacterial group Nitragin can be used instead of the nitrogen-containing composition. The norm of the bacterial supplement is 5 g / kg. Such an additive allows to normalize the process of development of peas without nitrogen starvation.

Instead of "Nitragin" you can use rotten compost or humus, phosphate-potassium fertilizers.

On specially prepared soil, the harvest is better and more fertile. As a fertilizer, lime can be used: 300 g / m ² with the addition of potassium - 30 g, double superphosphate - 20 g.

Interesting! At the site where peas used to grow, the cabbage gives a good harvest for the second year of planting.

Before sowing the seeds of pea yellow are soaked in a specially prepared solution with microfertilizers. Before dipping into the ground, peas are treated with brown, boric acid or ammonium molybdate. This treatment serves as a protective barrier against rot, mold, fungus, repels rodents.

Fertilizing the soil preparation of beds for growing peas does not end. It is worthwhile to prepare in advance: to establish support for adult plants. Many grow peas and do not know that, planting on the ground, the crop does not bring the desired harvest, but it gives birth to much more fertile, being in a vertical position.

How to sow seeds?

Do you know how to properly plant peas?

Sowing is performed in 3-4 line tapes, observing the distance between lines of up to 16 cm and tapes - up to 45 cm.

The level of planting of seeds in the soil depends on the type of soil. If the site is dominated by clay rocks, the peas are not deep-seated. In light soils that can be washed out, the seeds are sown deeper.

Important! Observe the level of seeding of pea seeds. With small embedding, they can be pinched by pests. To the garden does not attract the attention of birds, put in the area where the seeds are sown, twigs, tear it with straw or grass.

The technical ripeness of beans depends on the time of disembarkation and the level of germination. Therefore, the sowing is carried out in a short time, while achieving the simultaneous ripeness of each pea pod.

Germination of pea seeds is observed already 14 days after sowing in the soil. Varieties of sugar peas grow slowly at the beginning of the growing season. Weeds quickly kill the crops, so plants need weeding.

Successful germination of pea seeds is possible under such conditions: the presence of heat and moisture. An important role is played by the access of light and oxygen. All these factors influence the rapidity of germination of pea seeds and their further development. Healthy and strong sprouts are more resistant to diseases and infections that can affect culture. The defeat of legumes occurs as a result of a violation of the plant nutrition regime, untimely withdrawal. In case the soil has been waterlogged, fungal bacteria and mold almost always develop. To common diseases and pests that affect legumes, include:

• Powdery mildew;
• Root rot;
• Peronosporoz (referred to as powdery mildew);
• Anthracnose;
• Pea aphid;
• Nodule weevil.

To prevent the appearance of diseases in green peas and to reduce the number of pests, it is necessary to know how to rebuff the enemy, but most importantly, to observe one rule: to care for planting.

There is a need to install a trellis when the peas grow a little. This will allow the culture to grow upward, not lying down from the currents of the wind. In addition, with trellises it is easier to harvest.

Tapestries set every half a meter along the entire perimeter of the site, if the bed is small - it is completely fenced.

Care of the culture is in weeding and watering.

All kinds of peas are grown according to a similar pattern.

Fruiting of peas

Early ripening varieties of seed peas begin to bear fruit after 4-5 weeks, and late ripening seeds after 6-7 weeks.

Seed peas are a multi-crop vegetable culture, the fruiting period of which is extended for up to 6 weeks. Blades of sugar and shelling species of peas are harvested after 1-2 days.

During the entire period of fruiting in comfortable growing conditions, the total yield of the blades of sugar and peeled peas can reach 5 kg / m ² .

Legumes are caloric and useful. Peas are rich in fiber, protein, starch and sugar, lysine, vitamins and acids. This plant is used in cooking and agriculture.

Growing peas is an entertaining and not too time consuming process. This useful plant is ideal for fresh consumption, for preserving and preparing different dishes.

Pea seed is used to dress goats. From legumes form useful fodder for birds.