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SALE OCTOBER 30-31 WP by Barbara Damrosch A garden in fall, planted to
make the most of cool temperatures, can look almost like a garden in spring. Leafy greens, no longer gasping in the heat, are mild and tender. Brassicas such as cabbage and broccoli glow like green jewels against the low-angled sun. And if you were on your toes with a mid-August sowing of fall peas, you are now enjoying a delicious treat. I’m talking about the old-fashioned English pea, also called the garden pea. Green pearls lined up in a row. Most people think of peas as a spring-planted crop, sown as early as possible to take advantage of the cool weather they need. A premature heat wave might wither them, but that’s a risk worth taking, so
sweet is the taste of just barely mature peas, gulped straight out of the pod.
With fall peas the timing is
even trickier. You need to give the plants enough time to grow and be harvested before frost, but getting any seeds to germinate in midsummer heat requires vigilance to keep the seedbed moist and the soil cool. At our farm we’ve found that starting fall peas in soil blocks, out of the sun, makes a difference. Once they have germinated, they are set out four inches apart in the row, without any transplant shock. Pre-germinating them between moist paper towels is another option. Applying a straw mulch
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