Plant the Peas!

The beginning of spring is the time to plant your seeds outside for early spring crops such as peas, lettuce, spinach and kale. Check out this useful planting guide from the MD extension service. The first thing you will need to do is to prepare your outside beds for planting. My in-ground raised beds required weeding, soil turning, and adding raised bed soil with a topping of manure.

I needed to add gravel, and raised bed soil to my brand new raised bed planter on the deck. In subsequent years, all that will be needed for this planter is some top off soil and manure.

For the peas, rows should be at least 6 inches apart and 2 inches deep. Within each row, plant the seeds 4-6 inches apart. Once the seeds are covered with soil, you will need to water the beds to soak the seeds. Within 7-14 days, the pea plants will begin emerging out of the soil.

The hearty seeds that I purchase from Burpee result in 95% germination. Take a look it this post from a few weeks ago about varieties of seeds to buy from Burpee. Should you plant seeds or starter plants in your vegetable garden