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So in this video, I would like to show you how I'm growing taller pea varieties.
In the previous video where I was showing you how I'm growing peas in my garden, I was
growing a dwarf
variety.
And the main difference between these ones and the previous one, which I've been growing
last season,
is that I'm going to make a trellis for these varieties.
So that's why we are making another video for this season.
So I have two different types of peas here.
I have sugar snap peas and variety.
Here is Oscar, which is an early variety.
It's a it's a really great tasting, early sugar snap pea.
And we have another variety here, which is called Ambrosia, and that's a munch to be variety,
which
we grow exclusively for its pod.
So we don't want peas inside the pod.
We are just going to use the pods and it's really, really sweet.
And we are using that exactly the same way like we cook with the green beans.
So it's a really good crop as well and it grows much, much taller.
Also the sugar snap pea as well compared to my dwarf variety last season.
So I'm going to plant these ones in these three beds in front of me.
I'm going to plant two beds of this Oscar and one bed of the ambrosia.
We are in second part of last week of March, I sowed the seeds 2 to 3 seeds per cell.
Around three weeks ago.
So pea transplants usually takes three weeks to mature, and after three weeks you can start
transplanting
them out.
So this is the time right now, and I'm going to just transplant them out right now, give them a
good
water, and we are going to come back in a few weeks and start putting up a trellis system for
them
and give them some additional support.
And let's wait for the nice warm spring weather and the early harvest of these fresh and tasty
peas.
So four weeks after the transplanting of these sugar snap peas, I would like to show you
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what is the
next step, what we have to do with the plants.
And they are looking really nice.
In the past few weeks, we had some cold temperatures, so I had to cover them with fleece.
But now real spring is here.
This is the last week of April.
We have really nice temperatures and also the night temperatures are above freezing.
So it's quite nice right now.
And the next step, what we have to do since these sugar snap peas are going to be taller,
that we
need to give them some kind of support.
So I put down these regular stakes around two, 2.5m apart, which is around 7 to 8ft.
And what I would like to do here, as you can also see at the first row, is I'm just pulling out
regular
string, but on both sides of the stake.
And this will help me to get the space for the plant to grow and the string will support it from
both
of the sides.
So that's what I already did with this first row.
And I'm going to do the second one right now and I will try to show you this very, very simple
and
easy way to build this support system for your peas.
And as they grow, you just have to make sure that the peas are growing between these two
strings.
And as they grow taller, you can apply another set of strings.
And around in 6 to 8 weeks we can start harvesting.
So approximately I think they will grow around this height, but we will see depending on the
season
obviously.
But this is the most simple DIY and cheap way to give your pea plants and some support to
grow.
So now I would like to show you how my pea beds are looking.
A few weeks after giving them the support by this trellis system.
So in front of me, I have these matched to the variety, which is a little bit taller compared to
the
sugar snap pea, which I'm growing here in our climate.
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We don't really have really nice pea plants like you can have maybe in the UK or, or maybe in
the northern
part of Europe or in the US where the spring is a little bit cooler.
You can have much, much taller pea plants and much more harvest.
So in our climate here in northern Hungary, it's 15th of May, but we already had 33 degrees,
32°C,
which is really, really hot and it's not really favorable for the pea plant.
So we have a short growing season for the peas.
That's why they are not growing very tall.
So the smaller supporting or trellis system is quite enough for them.
But the Munch two peas are looking really nice and I just have this one row of string which is
perfectly
enough for them.
But if they would grow higher, I can always just add another layer or another level of this
string
and give them some additional support as they grow higher.
But it looks like that this will be the height of these plants and this one string is enough for
these
rows.
So.
When you are growing peas, you just need to be really careful about what type of pea and
which variety
you are growing so you can buy the regular smaller varieties like I showed you in my other
video where
I was growing a dwarf variety.
And I could do that without the trellis system.
Here I have the sugar snap peas, which are tend to grow higher, but in our climate they are
also quite
low.
But I gave them some additional support.
And this masterpiece which you are growing for only for the pods and you don't want to
have the peas
inside, you just eat.
The pods are growing even maybe higher or the same height, like with the sugar snap peas.
So you always need to give them some kind of support like I do here.
So there are all different kinds of and types of peas as you can see, and the conditions
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which you
have to give to the plants like irrigation and nutrients are pretty much the same.
So they like a really fertile soil and you don't want to overwater them, but you, you, you want
to
give them some nice watering.
During the growing period.
And yeah, so growing peas is not really hard to do.
You just need to give them a really good support system.
If you are in a better growing climate like we are here.
But yeah, that's how I do it in my garden.
And if you have any other way of supporting your plants, that's also very fine.
But if you are looking for a very simple way to make a support system or trellis system for
your peas,
I think maybe this is one of the easiest ones to do.
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