Plant your peas.

Its time to plant the cool weather crops. As soon as you can dig into the earth you can plant your cool crops.

I like to plant peas first. This is the time to put them in the ground. I plant Green Arrow pea. It is a tall bush about 24 inches. It produces a lot of peas and keeps blooming and producing until mid June when the hot weather burns the blossoms.

To plant peas break up the earth. You can use a tiller or spade. I like to use a spade because my pea patches are only 6 feet by 3 feet. I have 2 pea patches. After I break up the earth I rake it smooth. Then using a hoe I carve a furrow into the ground. Each furrow is about 8 inches apart. I plant a pea every 2 inches between the furrows.  That's 2 rows between the furrows.  I plant them about 1 inch to 1.5 inch deep. Now just cover the seeds over and wait.

Peas are self fertile. They fertilize themselves before the blossom opens. You can have hybrids if you plant more than one kind, but it is not a frequent happening. Most peas are heirloom plants and you can save the seeds from year to year. Just let some of the pods stay on the plants until they are dry. Then pick them, pop the dry peas out of the pod, put the peas into a airtight bag or jar and put them in the freezer till next spring.

Next year do the same thing. You will never have to buy pea seeds again.