Legumtimate...er...legitimate questions about legumes.

[badgerpup]

Is it too late to plant peas?
You know, the ones with the delicious sweet green edible pods?

Friend of mine got a veggie tray with raw peapods on it...
I'd forgotten how much I like them.
Now I MUST grow some.

Have purple bush beans and romano beans (I like them, too!) soaking right now before they get planted in 5 gallon plastic bukkits buckets tomorrow.

These are listed as '55 day', but still have to acquire the seeds for the peas...

Also, am using bought topsoil. Anything I should add to it to make legumes happy and growful (e.g., like epsom salt with tomatoes and peppers)?

[ThomWV]

1. You didn't say where you are

We are about 10 miles south of the Mason Dixon line and 35 miles west of the western border of Maryland, its probably too late here to plant peas. To be honest about it, we just started eating our first snap peas about a week ago and they are in full maturity right now. We won't be replanting them until about mid-september and we rarely have a lot of success with fall peas.

[badgerpup]

2. Sorry...

:hi: I'm in south central Montana.

Zone 4...and we've had a cool (almost cold!) wet, rainy summer so far.
My tomatoes and peppers are just sitting there. Stems seem a bit sturdier, but the plants aren't much taller and as for blossoms?

No sign a-tall.
:nopity:

[Kolesar]

3. When I plant tomatoes and peppers, I put them into cutouts in plastic mulch

Last time, I used plastic bags of compost that were black on the inside and laid them out flat. This year, I tried red plastic mulch.

I warm the soil for a month before planting by putting a black sheet of plastic on the whole 4' x 22' planting bed. Then I have warm soil to start with. Our Ohio weather has not been clammy since early May, a few weeks before planting.

[Gormy Cuss]

4. I'd say go ahead and plant them.

Peas love cool weather and grow fairly fast.