Peas (Easy Peasy) & Tomatoes 12/29/23

1/9/24 Paul Robeson has one 1" sprout; Sugar Baby seeds are swollen, may or may not germinate.

Added two pods of Burpee Easy Peasy seeds. These peas grow to 3-5 ft., so should share a Farm with the Paul Robeson when they are big enough for a Farm. (I'm starting seeds in Bounties now, to save on electricity. Farms draw the most electricity.)

www.burpee.com/pea-easy-peasy-prod002731.html

Peas and tomatoes are good companions, apparently.

The peas and tomatoes are growing! I think that I should've planted only one pea per sponge. I tried two per pod, and both top seeds have sprouted. I don't know whether the seeds underneath are sprouting--but I do know that there's no room in one AG pod for two pea vines.

At day 62, the "Easy Peasy" vines have blooms and peapods! They are holding their own against the vigorous Paul Robeson tomato on their right. The vines have a gazillion tendrils that grow in tangles, and that only occasionally grip something for support. You can see the tangles best at the bottom of the plant, near the grow deck. They are completely self-pollinating.

The pods appeared very quickly. I noticed the first flowers about a week ago.

No, I just added two seeds to each of two pods. The seeds are quite large--pea-sized, in fact!

Next time I'll add only one seed, and replace the pod if the pea doesn't germinate.

This morning I removed the tomato from the Farm, so that I can pay better attention to the two pea vines. The second one is kind of spindly, which I couldn't see before.

I no longer have any qualms about terminating a plant that I'm dissatisfied with. I actually had two Paul Robeson tomatoes going, and the one in the Farm (photo above) was producing leaves and some blooms, but wasn't setting any fruit.

I think you could easily plant 4 pods in a Farm, and that a Bounty can easily handle 2 or more. The root system is not especially large.



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Okay, I checked the nutrient and pH levels a few minutes ago. For peas, the ranges are:

pH 6.0-7.0
EC 0.8-1.8
CF 8.0-18.0
PPM 900-1100

My AG peas are high for EC and CF:
pH 6.51
EC 2.12
CF 21.2
PPM 1060

Now, how do I adjust the EC and CR levels? scarfguy? Anyone?

Thanks, scarfguy! I really do want to grow some fresh peas--enough for a side dish now and then--so I'm going to treat these guys better from now on. No more delayed R&Rs.

Today I terminated the last Paul Robeson tomato. It was producing blooms without setting any fruit, and was at maximum Bounty height. I think that I failed to give it enough nutrients of the kind it needed for developing fruit.

Anyway, one thing I've learned from my attempts at growing slicing tomatoes is that the full-size-tomato plants don't produce new branches or blooms on the lower portions of the stems. So there's no point trying to save a 24" nonfruiting plant unless it's going to be transplanted outdoors.

Anyway, peas are filling out in the existing Easy Peasy pods, although the plants are kind of stalled regarding new blooms and pods.

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