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Growing peas is not only beneficial from the point of view of its nutritional value, because the percentage of peas in it is as much protein as in meat, but it is also useful for improving the soil. Its roots have the ability to absorb highly soluble mineral salt compounds and enrich the earth with nitrogen. Like any crop, peas have their own subtleties of cultivation, which are useful to know so that the harvested crop will please you both in quality and quantity
Suitable plot and precursors of peas
An area that has not been filled with fresh manure is allocated for the cultivation of peas. Neutral and slightly acidic soils are suitable. The composition of the soil is sandy loam and loam. Peas are not particularly picky about their predecessors, they will be comfortable after any vegetable crops - cucumbers and tomatoes, cabbage and potatoes, various root crops. But it is not recommended to sow peas after other legumes.
Optimal temperature conditions and sowing time
Sowing of peas begins at the end of April. It is considered a cold-resistant plant, but when the air temperature drops to -5 ° C, the seedlings die. It is necessary to be guided by the fact that the seeds germinate at a temperature of + 2 … + 4 ° С, but the optimal conditions for the emergence of seedlings are at + 5 … + 10 ° С. You can rejoice for the growth and development of plants when the thermometer freezes at around + 20 ° C. At temperatures above + 30 ° C, development is inhibited.
Pre-sowing preparation of peas
Peas must be sorted before sowing. It is not always possible with the naked eye to distinguish between healthy seeds and those affected by a pea weevil. Immersion in saline will help identify damaged peas. To do this, 350 g of table salt will be needed for 1 liter of water. Those specimens in which the parasites have already settled will emerge. Healthy ones are dried before sowing.
Sowing technology
To determine the seeding rate, you need to know whether the selected variety is tall or not. In the first case, sowing is done with row spacing of about 40 cm, in the second - 30 cm. Seeds are embedded in grooves about 5 cm deep at a distance of no closer than 3 cm to each other. Peas are pressed into the soil during sowing, and after planting the beds with earth, it is also recommended to tread lightly so that the seeds have tight contact with the soil.
So that harrowing does not go to harm
Seedlings of rounded smooth varieties appear a week after sowing, cerebral ones - about three days later. By this time, a crust often has time to form on the surface of the earth and weeds even break through. Therefore, 3 days before the expected time for the emergence of seedlings on the surface, it is required to harrow the beds, passing it across the rows. This technique can be performed after the emergence of shoots, but in no case after rain, since the wet stem of a young plant becomes extremely fragile and very easy to damage.
It is important to know that in the second half the plant loses a little turgor, becomes more elastic and therefore less brittle. Knowing this trick, experienced gardeners carry out harrowing in the late afternoon, when there is less risk of breaking a delicate stalk.
Further care
Planting care consists in the most common agricultural practices: loosening and weeding, fertilizing and watering. This is a moisture-loving culture, therefore, in dry periods, irrigation is indispensable. You also need to ensure that the soil is sufficiently loose and breathable.
The first feeding on insufficiently fertile soils is carried out when the plant has extended in height by at least 5 cm. Two weeks later, feeding is repeated. Organic fertilizers are not used. The peas are phosphoric and potash to taste. For this, superphosphate and potassium chloride are used.
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