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Tuesday, March 20, 2012

Planting Peas in March

Today some of us adult volunteers planted pea seeds in the garden.  We planted the heirloom varieties Lincoln(shell pea) and Cascadia(snap pea).  They do not need staking since they only grow to about 3ft tall, they support each other.  We planted them three inches apart intensively.  Intensively means three inches apart on all sides, not in rows.  They will be ready to harvest in about 70 days.
Peas have enchanted humans for thousands of years.  Dried peas were found in 7000 year old burial sites in Europe.  They originally were cultivated in the Eastern Mediterranean.  They were a standby of the Egyptians, Greeks and Romans.

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