More than a week since I have sown snow peas and still no sign of germination. I look at the soil and soil is all that I see. I have heard that peas, having a high sugar content, can rot in the ground before germinating when the temperatures are too low. This is a vegetable that likes to grow in cool weather, but needs warm soil to germinate. One loophole to this obstacle is to trick the peas by presprouting them inside, then sneakily and carefully planting them outside in the soil. I wanted to do a lengthy post about how to accomplish this, but while researching stumbled upon one that I quite liked. So instead of trying to re-invent the wheel, heres the link...
http://blogs.icta.net/plover/2009/04/20/pre-germination/ ... I highly recomend reading this.
More than a week since I have sown snow peas and still no sign of germination. I look at the soil and soil is all that I see. I have heard that peas, having a high sugar content, can rot in the ground before germinating when the temperatures are too low. This is a vegetable that likes to grow in cool weather, but needs warm soil to germinate. One loophole to this obstacle is to trick the peas by presprouting them inside, then sneakily and carefully planting them outside in the soil. I wanted to do a lengthy post about how to accomplish this, but while researching stumbled upon one that I quite liked. So instead of trying to re-invent the wheel, heres the link... http://blogs.icta.net/plover/2009/04/20/pre-germination/ ... I highly recomend reading this.
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