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Peas love cold temps.
I also plant climbers, not bush.
Bush anything gets blown over here (and probably where you are too)
Territorial offers several that do well in the area.
Mine are Oregon Spring, and I save seed every year.
These are pod peas we love for stir fry & fresh in sald.
My Dad has snap pelch, or the shavings out of your coops.
Then I covered them with 3 foot sections of 6-foot fence, bent over into tunnels, cover & staple the plastic on, and forget about them.
vent in each end allows air & prevents any fungal rot...water every so oftem when dry, I have to rip off 1 side of the plastic & in deep winter, use a watering can.
pretty soon you see little garlics peeking out of the mulch, all around you is snow.
The trick is the cloves grow deep roots in winter, under the mulch in the warmish compost..
All winter they grow DOWN.
I had peas.sugar snap peas. Twice. The little jerks ate them
Little jerks as in slugs ?
Bugs?
or peeps ?
I am going to encircle the garden with fencing..and let a flock out to free range in the area.
The rest are allowed up the hill, but NO chickens are allowed OUT in my garden !
No No No!!!
THAT is our food !
And I take it seriously, the cost & work alone.
The food grown will be blanched, frozen, stored, dehydrated, canned or pickled, for winter stores
