HOME VEGETABLE GARDENING 



PEAS 



AS ONE of the hardiest and most easily grown vege- 

 tables, these deserve a place in every home garden, 

 particularly in view of the fact that real quality in peas 

 can never be bought on market. However, it does not 

 pay to grow them in very small gardens, because consider- 

 able space must be planted to them so as to enable one 

 to gather pods sufficient for a meal at one picking. Be- 

 sides, the crops from the space peas occupy are small 

 when compared with crops other vegetables will yield from 

 the same space. 



Peas thrive in most any soil and climate. The seeds 

 sprout vigorously and the plants grow rapidly. For the 

 average home garden, the dwarf kinds are possibly the 

 better. But the tall varieties bear longer and later and 

 without some of them a constant succession of well-filled 

 pods can hardly be had. 



All peas thrive better if given brush or trellis of some 

 sort to which to cling. Every phase of pea growing is 

 thoroughly dealt with in pages 115-121. 



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