Sowing peas
16 October 2025
Spring is the time to sow your peas. There are traditional pod peas, snow peas and sugar snap peas.
Using the side of your trowel or a hoe, or a niwashi to make a shallow seed drill the depth of your knuckle. Place the seeds in the seed drill in rows of three. Space the rows about a knuckle wide. All peas like to twine up on each other and this sowing method allows them to do this. Cover with soil. Peas take about 10 days to come up. They need to be moist but not wet. I cover my rows with twigs, to prevent the black birds from assuming that you have just laid on a worm feast for them.
