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Tips for Growing Peas Indoors
25.06.2023 - 06:05 / gardenerspath.com / Nan Schiller
Tips for Growing Peas IndoorsPeas, Pisum sativum, are a cool-weather crop for USDA Hardiness Zones 3 to 11.
Those in zones that receive frost sow and reap in the spring, while those in the warmest zones within this range plant in the fall for a winter harvest.
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Our guide to growing peas in containers has all you need to know to raise a crop outdoors without a garden.
This article takes container gardening a step further and brings pea cultivation indoors.
Here’s what we’ll cover:
Let’s jump in!
Peas 101Peas are members of the Fabaceae family of plants that also includes beans. Biologically speaking, a pea is a pulse, or edible seed, and the whole pod is considered a legume.
P. sativum is an annual that grows for only one season, completing its entire life cycle in this time. We eat the seeds, or the seeds and pods of some varieties, as vegetables.
In the garden, these plants are known as “nitrogen fixers” because their roots have a symbiotic relationship with rhizobia bacteria.
The bacteria form nodules and colonize on the roots and, in return, “fix” atmospheric nitrogen for the pea plant and neighboring plants to use as food.
Another fun fact about peas is that they are self-fertile, and can pollinate themselves without the help of bees and other insects, relying instead on the wind to jostle the pollen into position.
Garden or English types are those that we shell before eating. Their pods are tough and inedible.
Snow peas have tiny, immature seeds inside flat, edible pods.
And the sugar snap variety has plump round seeds inside edible pods.
Some varieties grow on long vines that require staking. Others have a more
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