Peas - one of the most ancient legumes. Popular with gardeners for simplicity, good productivity and useful minerals contained in the fruit. It is the only one among the vegetables that of total protein content is almost equal to meat. To understand how you can sow peas in August, you need to know about a few flavor variants, differing in taste, texture and method of cultivation.
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pea varieties
In the middle of the summer set the hot weather, which brings bad peas. Therefore, it can be planted in spring or, like most other plants, either at the end of the summer. In the second case, the harvest will be in late September or early October - depending on ripening varieties.
Despite the large selection of varieties, all of them are divided into 3 types:
- Brainstorming - shriveled, but still maintain the juiciness and sweetness. Is commonly used in the preservation, the light is better suited to brine, and the dark are more easily frozen.
- Diabetes - the sweetest kind of peas, juicy, well-suited as an addition to salads. When drying shrinking by almost half.
- Shelling - due to increased starch content in the beans is rarely used in food in its pure form. Frequent component soups and other foods that require prolonged longing or quenching.
Brain and sugar varieties are recommended for fresh consumption, hulling - blanks for the winter.
Varieties for planting in August
In late summer, you can put any type of pea, but it should be an early and Medium early - ripening period is not more than 55 days. In the middle zone are actively put the following classes:
- "Sweet emerald", "sugar icing" - sugar, high-yielding, Medium early (about 55 days), for universal use;
- "Ambrosia" - sugar, cold-resistant, early maturing (40 days), too, is universal;
- "Kelvedonskoe miracle" - a brain that is resistant to cold and disease, earlier, demanding to care;
- "Vega" and "Saharok-slider" - Shelling, mid and early, respectively, are less susceptible to disease and lodging, preferably canning, but can also be used fresh.
How to grow
First there is a preparation of seeds for planting. They are soaked for a few days before full swelling, then wrapped with a damp cloth for 2 days. Such training accelerates ripening. And dry seeds are more prone to rotting than prepared.
Well grows peas, buried on the vacated beds in a neutral or slightly acid soil. The beds should be well illuminated. Plant can be in any order, only the distance between seeds should be about 6 cm and the aisle width - about 50 cm.
The seeds are laid 2-3 cm deep. In sandy soils bookmarks depth increases up to 4-5 cm. Before planting beds compost after - ram land, abundantly watered and covered with any non-woven fabric from birds. The support pegs are driven at the same time, between the stretched rope or fishing line.
The seeds germinate within a week after planting. Plant Care Standard: regular watering and weeding of weeds.
When flowering begins, it is recommended to make the root wood ash, approximately half a cup per plant.
You must collect juicy, yet not over-ripe pods. If a long time to harvest, the plant will automatically cut fruit.
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