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So, we are expecting rain [fingers crossed] - an ideal opportunity to plant some sugar snap peas. While doing my morning walk, brain in neutral, came up with a knee/back saving idea as I passed a shortish length of 25 mm water pipe. Loosened the ground and then used the pipe as a delivery system - planting hole and sure placement in one! The bamboo died (yes, I thought that was impossible too) so there is a ready supply of sticks for a teepee. Now all I need is for the weather to co-operate.

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I hope it works for you! In my area (8b) we get too warm to plant peas right now, Last year I tried planting them in mid-May and they shriveled and died in early Jul. with their little beginnings-of-pods. The snap pea plant I currently have was started in mid April, so hopefully it will make it to mature pods before its too hot here.

Your climate and mine aren't the same though so you may have a different experience.

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I think Joseph Lofthouse does something similar with a length of pipe.

I used my spade - dug it in to make a slot in he ground, then sprinkled a handful of peas in the slot and tramped in down. It actually seemed to work remarkably well! I suppose there was a bit of bending to sprinkle the seeds in...maybe an attachment to the spade?

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An excellent idea, especially if you are making long rows!
I just put in my peas last week (same thing, lots of rain, and very cold weather, perfect for peas). Hope you're warmer than we are down here in southern Brazil!

(i want to say i read somewhere that bamboo sometimes dies after flowering. I also didn't know it was mortal!)

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Tht is how we planted a food plot of sunflower seeds.

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I bought a bag of peas and threw them all over the place.
They took best there I followed up by tromping on them.

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No idea comes out of isolation, I guess, just needs the right prompt - thanks for the short video, Joseph. your angled base is a great improvement on my straight cut version, but the soil was loose enough that it didn't matter.
@ Tereza - winter-ish for me also. 8°C to 18°C if we're lucky, and yes it did rain. Still have fingers crossed for more follow-up.

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How early can you plant peas in the spring coming out of winter? Will they do all right with some chilly overnights as we haven't reached the last frost date?

I've got a whole bunch that I'm going to plant to see if I luck out, but wanted to see how other's have fared with trying to grow peas as soon as the ground is workable.

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Timothy Norton wrote:How early can you plant peas in the spring coming out of winter? Will they do all right with some chilly overnights as we haven't reached the last frost date?

I've got a whole bunch that I'm going to plant to see if I luck out, but wanted to see how other's have fared with trying to grow peas as soon as the ground is workable.

in my experience they're fine with a frost, although maybe not with the kind of north american hard frost that freezes the ground hard. If it were a small plot, what have you got to lose, really?

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I like to leave it a little later before sowing my peas so that the soil has warmed up just a little. Although peas do germinate in colder weather I think they stand a better chance of not being eaten by something if they are a bit quicker getting going - hitting the ground running, as it were.

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Timothy Norton wrote:How early can you plant peas in the spring coming out of winter? Will they do all right with some chilly overnights as we haven't reached the last frost date?

I have had up and down luck with early peas. I suspect a lot of them rot in cold, wet dirt. But I put a few rows in last week anyway. And this week we just got 8 inches of snow and 5F temps (-15? C). Hoping the snow will keep the soil from freezing but not sure it matters. We shall see in a week or two after the weather warms up again. Plenty more seeds to plant again later.

Expecting no harm from the temps to the carrots and lettuce seed I put down recently.

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