Planting Peas and My Tables Runneth Over!!

I was planning on sowing some of the peas here at the house on Sunday. After spending most of the day at the plots I decided to soak the peas in a Vitamin C solution and sow them on Monday. I read that it has been proven that pea seedlings treated with Vitamin C will grow 40% higher. The root length, deeling weight and germination are also greatly enhanced by doing this. To make the solution, dissolve 150 milligrams of Vitamin C in two quarts of water and soak the peas in it for 12 to 48 hours. In the article that I had read the woman then pre-sprouted the peas before coating them with inoculate and planting them. There was no way that I was going to pre-sprout hundreds of peas seeds!! Well, it was so cold and damp yesterday that last night I decided to roll them up in damp paper towels, put them in a plastic bag and place them on the radiator until I was able to plant them some time today.

After spending a couple of hours this morning playing the seedling shuffle and re-potting the Brussels Sprouts, Kohlrabi and some additional broccoli, I decided that I better get outside and plant the peas here at the house. The weather forecast for the next week is not very promising, so I have to take advantage of every minute of decent weather that we have. When I opened up the peas, some of them had already started to sprout after only about 16 hours!! I was in such a hurry to get them planted that I didn't take any pictures.

Around the exterior of the garlic bed, I planted Spring Blush Snap Peas, which are a purple podded snap pea. I'm very excited about this pea. I also planted Little Marvel English peas in this bed.

This bed is in the yard next door. The new owner was nice enough to let me use it. I planted Mammoth Melting Snow Peas around the exterior of this bed. I will also plant my early potatoes here. After they are finshed, which should be mid-July, I'm going to help the woman who will be living there plant some veggies in there.

After planting the peas, I planted about three dozen onion plants here and there in the beds here at the house. The main onion crop will be planted at the plots.



 This is the front germinating table down in the basement. As you can see the early tomatoes are getting huge and the table is almost completely full! It's difficult to get good pictures with those lights on.

This is the back germinating table in the basement....it's full too!!!

Here are the seedlings that I re-potted this morning. Since they are cool weather crops, soon I will be able to take them outside with the other tray and a half!! I wish the weather and our schedule would cooperate so we could get the greenhouse up!