vegetable
Peas
Sow as soon as the ground thaws. Heat ends the crop. A fall sowing only works with enough cool weeks.
- Sun
- Full sun
- Spacing
- 2 in
- Days
- 55–70
- Zones
- 3a–9a
How to sow
As soon as the ground thaws. Trellis the same day you sow. Inoculant is optional; warm soil is not.
Harvest
Sugar snaps at full pod, still bright green.
Mistakes that waste a packet
- Sowing in May in zone 6
- No trellis
- Heat
Three packets
Sugar Snap
BeginnerEat the pod. Give it a trellis.
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Related
Tomatoes
Start indoors. Match days-to-maturity to the weeks you actually have after last frost.
Peppers
Need more heat and a longer indoor start than tomatoes. Short-season varieties matter north of zone 7.
Lettuce
The crop that makes a first garden feel like a garden. Sow in spring and again in late summer.
The sow list
A note when it is time to sow
Seasonal, not daily. We will send what to start in your zone, and skip the rest of the year.
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