Peas Seed Packet - Alderman
Days to Harvest: 72 days. One of the most popular home garden vegetables, peas grow best in cool weather. Young pea plants tolerate considerable cold, even light frost; so spring plantings are seldom harmed by cold weather. Shelled out fresh peas have a sweet, delicate flavour. May be frozen or canned.
Sowing: Select a sunny location and plant in very early spring as soon as soil can be worked. Cultivate soil and enrich with vegetable food and organic matter. Continue planting at 2 week intervals until mid-spring. Plant again in late summer for late fall. crop. Firm soil over seed.
Comments: Provide support for tall growing varieties. Water by soaking soil to reduce danger of disease. Pick when seeds have enlarged in the pod, while still bright green. Hold vine while picking to avoid tearing it.
Approx. 70-100 sds/pkt.