Well it’s nearly time to put your peas in, and snow peas in particular are a very versatile pea for cooking and pretty easy to grow. They like well-rotted compost dug through the soil, or aged manure works a treat. When it comes to pH, they like soil to be above 6.5, so if your soil is more acidic, add some lime prior to planting. Another thing you’ll need to do is set up a climbing support. This can be as a chicken wire tube or a teepee made out of stakes. It helps to run some string around your teepee so the tendrils (like little ‘hands’ that help the peas attach onto things and grow up tall) can anchor themselves onto something.

 

Transplanted seedlings need water daily until established, but don’t overdo it as they hate wet feet. Fertilising them with a high potassium-based fertiliser will aid in flower and pea production remembering that as with all legumes, they fix their own nitrogen into the soil so no need to add more in way of high nitrogen feeders.

 

Remember to pick your pods regularly to trick the plants into thinking they haven’t done their job and set more flowers and pods.