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Friday, February 28. 2014

Snow Peas

St. Patrick's Day is the traditional time to plant snow peas around here. It's coming on March 17, and my bags of seeds are ready along with the inoculant.


As has been happening in recent years, due to the crisis of global cooling, this year it may require a snow shovel and maybe a blow torch to melt the soil to get those seeds in the ground. 


It looks like one more year when the peas will be late.

Posted by The Barrister in Gardens, Plants, etc., Our Essays at 13:38 | Comments (4) | Trackbacks (0)

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You can put a good hole in frozen ground using a rifle.
#1 chuck on 2014-02-28 14:19 (Reply)
Wouldn't that clog the barrel up something fierce?


/heh
#1.1 Jess1 on 2014-02-28 14:34 (Reply)
For many years our neighbor planted potato's very very early.
Her trick was to boil a pail of water, and then dump a cup full into each hole, as she was planting the potatoes. No need to guess who had the earliest potatoes on the block. Recommend you try it and let us all know.
#2 woody on 2014-02-28 19:32 (Reply)
We used to start planting peas around St Patrick's day [and dad always planted potatoes that day]. Then we planted more every week until the frost stopped killing them. That way we always got some peas. The ones that got planted 'too late' never did very well. You could never really judge the best time, and too early or too late meant no peas.

Mom always wanted to plant "in the sign" although she said she didn't believe in it. Our calendar from the local bank had a lot of information about the signs for each day. We planted potatoes in the signs of feet and ankles and corn in the signs of shoulders and above. Our gardens were always prolific, but I'm guessing that was more due to excellent soil, Mom's compost, and strict weeding than to planting according to the signs.

BTW, I still plant that way.
#3 JorgXMcKie on 2014-03-01 10:29 (Reply)

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