hey guys this is Angela with Green acre homestead today I'm gonna be planting
something new for me anyway and that's Peas
I've never grown peas before so we're gonna give it a shot now we are growing
them a little bit later than normal I didn't think that we would be able to so
we decided to try a little experiment it is actually June first and is past
growing time for them here we're supposed to be doing it probably around
the beginning of May even a little bit farther back into April I wanted to try
and experiment at least to try and see what happens if you grow them too late
are you gonna get any at all or is it just gonna be a shorter growing time
what's gonna happen so stay with us and we'll hopefully find out so today we're
starting now with a bed that already has black cow tilled in with the soil we're
going to go ahead and trim the grass around the top and then lay down some
black egg fabric we do need to add some cinder blocks on top of this so it
doesn't blow away fly off anything like that and hopefully to cut down on some
of the grass that is growing up around it
so Sam's going to put some cinder blocks around the edge to hold the fabric down
and also hope to keep some of the weeds from coming up inside the cinder blocks
as well
so we use just regular lighters and we did dashes it says to space them about
two inches apart each of the seeds and then we're going to do three little rows
close together we'll find some way of trellising we're not quite sure what
we're going to do yet but we decided to do rows instead of actual little dots so
the seeds that I'm using is from Hoss tools and they're green arrow seeds
these are English peas which is what I was looking for and these are more like
the canned peas that you get in the store
so I got all those in the ground I just kind of pushed one on each little spot
about every two inches apart and next is going to be watering we'll
have to give it a good soak because that soil is very dry
so kind of funny story about the peas one day we were sitting around eating
canned peas and I'm like we've never grown piece that would be really cool to
do okay so we have what kind of peas do we get so I went looking and I saw that
there are actually three main types of peas there are English peas which is
what I got the green arrow peas English peas you don't eat the pod you just eat
the little being peas inside there's also snow peas snow peas you only eat
the pod you don't let them grow plump you just want to eat mainly just the pod
and then there are sugar snap peas and they're kind of a combination of both of
those and you want to wait until the pod gets plump that has nice peas inside and
then you eat both of them together I've tried those in the past and sugar
snap it sounds good to me because this has the word sugar in it it sounds sweet
and I didn't like it for me it's a little bit too much of a green taste but
I do like Peas and we're trying to find new things to can--and things that we do
eat that we can grow in the garden thus I found some English peas hostels
had the green arrow and it seemed like a pretty good option it says that they do
grow only about 24 to 30 inches tall which is kind of nice because it's very
manageable it does say that it's good to grow in containers and raised beds and
that sort of thing they are in raised beds I do hope that grow well and they
come in small pods that are like 2 to 4 inches long I hope to show you later how
they grew we will do updates of our garden and you'll get to see them later
and possibly even at the end of the summer getting to see us can sum well we
got them all planted watered ready to go hopefully in a week or so we will see
some seedlings starting to pop out of the ground stay tuned as we see them
grow hopefully it's lots of peas off of them and then
maybe even later on handsome thanks for watching leave a comment below we love
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you