Great info about peas! I just planted out some peas 2 days ago. It's early here but I think I'll succession plant out more peas for a while and see how that goes. Thanks for letting me know I can plant them into June! So is the first photo in this post a snap pea or an english pea? - Thanks to you I now know there are three types of peas I thought there were two! Do you know if all three types of peas readily cross pollinate or can you save seeds separately without problem?
You know, I'm just realizing that I wasn't taking climate change into consideration with the timing. You can plant them into mid-June with a typical Cascadian summer, I think. If it's a climate change hot summer, maybe not. Peas do cross-pollinate, but because they're self-pollinating you don't have to put much space in between them. 10-20 ft is the recommended difference. I think the photo up top is a standard garden pea. (It's the only one I didn't take myself...)
OK that's good to know about the pollination... I have several different types of peas planted near eachother, but I am not too concerned about them cross pollinating this year.. I am not super attached to them!
It's happened to me over and over where I got my peas in by President's day and then weeks later wondered what had happened to them and then replanted. (That story was no joke.) Each time I came up with double peas! So I don't do that any more. I don't really find succession planting helpful with peas, as mine always produce plenty until the hot weather kills them off. (Unless there's a mild summer--sometimes I get them all growing season long.) I have, though, replanted for a fall crop, starting them in Aug or Sept depending on the weather.
Great info, thank you. I'll be patient and wait a while for the peas to come up :) The summer here is supposed to be pretty hot, but it's my first season here so I'm curious to see how everything does in this climate and how long the peas last before the fizzle out :)