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06 Jun 21, Sally (Australia - temperate climate)

I always let the pod dry on the vine until I can shake them and hear the peas rattle inside (because they have dried out). I then store them in paper bags or cut up printer paper and make pouches for them to be stored in. This seems to work very well.

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12 Jul 20, lynette (Australia - cool/mountain climate)

I leave my pods on the vine until they are throughly dried out. If you dont want to plant them now, they will keep until next planting season. I keep mine in a paper bag, still in their pods

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10 Jul 20, Anonymous (Australia - temperate climate)

When the crop has nearly finished you need to let the pods dry out, go brown. Dry them out for another two weeks and then put in a bag and then store in an air tight jar in the fridge for next year. Fresh peas will probably go rotten in the soil. I don't know how long seeds need to be kept before they germinate. Google it maybe.

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05 Aug 22, clara (Australia - sub-tropical climate)

I shelled my seed peas green last year and left them in a bowl in the kitchen to dry. 90% germination rate when they were planted out 6 months later.

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23 Jun 20, Aubrey (USA - Zone 7b climate)

When is it time to pull out pea plants?

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14 Jun 20, Andre Crous (South Africa - Summer rainfall climate)

What types of soil do peas like

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15 Jun 20, Anonymous (South Africa - Summer rainfall climate)

Soils range from very sandy to heavy clay, in the middle is loam. A good loamy soil with plenty of compost added to it will grow just about all vegetables. As long as you have a sufficient supply of nutrient and water you can grow things in anything, water, sand, pebble, soil, straw etc.

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17 May 20, Chris Chitumwa (South Africa - Summer rainfall climate)

Thanks for the info. I was looking for the best time to grow peas in my small garden. The article was very helpful.

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19 May 20, Anon (Australia - sub-tropical climate)

Hoped you looked up your climate zone in S A for the info. Planting is a couple of months later than sub- tropical Australia. We receive most of our rain in the summer also.

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08 May 20, Heather (Australia - sub-tropical climate)

Hi. Newbie here both to this site and to veggie growing in general. Thrilled to find your site. I have two questions about Mammoth 'Snow Peas' which I planted in late April (doing well). First, how long might these plants bear in my sub-tropical region and should I continue sowing more peas into autumn? And, second, I've seen advice to pick the young shoots on pea plants (edible, I'm told) to encourage them to become more 'bushy'; does this apply only to 'bush' type peas or to climbing varieties also? Thank you in anticipation.

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