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THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 
April, 1915 
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Peas From June 7 to July 5 
T HE longer I run a “backyard” garden the 
more firmly I become convinced that the 
three most satisfactory crops from every viewpoint 
are peas, beans, and corn and if I had to give up one 
of them I would hesitate a long while before crossing 
peas off the list. Fairly good beans and passable 
corn are obtainable from any decent huckster in 
most any suburb or small town; but peas, unless 
they come straight from your own vines to your 
own table, are as so many husks. Canned peas are 
preferable to those offered by most produce venders. 
This is the way my family feels about it anyhow, 
and perhaps explains why I have put more time 
and thought into my pea crop than into any other. 
Amateurs who feel the same way and who are 
willing to admit that there may be room for im- 
provement in their method of planting peas (and 
I admit that there is room for such improvement 
in mine) may therefore be interested to know, in 
case they have not already discovered for them- 
selves, how they may have a steady supply of 
delicious garden peas from early June till the end 
of the first or second week in July. In latitudes 
more favorable than that of Pennsylvania they 
can doubtless do better. It is possible to attain 
this result by making at the most but two plant- 
ings — perhaps only one if the weather favors— 
and by using but six standard varieties. 
Having failed to get fully satisfactory results 
from successive plantings of three varieties in 1913, 
I chose for the 1914 season six varieties as follows: 
Pedigree, Gradus, Little Marvel, Alderman, British 
Wonder, and Potlach. The first two were planted 
April 10th. The weather at that time did not 
favor taking a chance on the less hardy wrinkled 
varieties, so their planting was delayed until April 
18th. On that day the last four varieties named 
all went into the ground at once. 
The average length of my rows is 50 feet. All the 
low growing and distinctly dwarf varieties — and this 
means all but Alderman — were planted in double 
rows. I make my double rows by drawing a care- 
ful furrow with a broad hoe, in depth about the 
depth of the blade. Then I draw a pointed stick 
along the bottom of this furrow, first on one side, 
then on the other. This makes two miniature 
furrows within the broad furrow, forming con- 
venient little pockets for the seed. It is the work 
of but a few seconds and dropping the seed in two 
straight parallel rows is then so easy that perhaps 
you can get your four year old daughter (if you are 
so blessed) to help you as I did mine. When the 
seed “comes up” you have two rows straight as a 
die, and about six inches apart, which is far enough. 
The quantity of seed used for fifty feet of row in 
all instances was one pint. This applies to both 
double and single rows; that is, I use no more seed 
for a 50-foot double row than for a 50-foot single 
row. I make single rows only for tall growing 
varieties, running a broad furrow and sowing the 
seed more thickly and not taking pains to drop it 
carefully and regularly as in the case of the double 
rows of low growing varieties. The system seems 
to work well. 
Pedigree grows only eighteen to twenty-four 
inches tall, according to conditions, but I have 
always found it advisable to stake it. If brush is 
difficult to find in your locality and chicken wire 
too hard on your pocket book in these dull times, 
use stakes and jute twine as I did. Both are cheap. 
Use plenty of stakes, drive them into the ground 
firmly, and do not spare the twine. Gradus, being 
a 3-foot proposition, also needs tying up, and Aider- 
man, which under favorable conditions shoots up 
five or six feet, positively demands it. Little 
Marvel, British Wonder, and Potlach may safely 
be left to take care of themselves. 
The table printed in connection with this article 
will show in tabloid form the result of the two 
plantings. Pedigree matured in 58 days, so we had 
our first peas on June 7th. The preceding season 
I used a different strain of Pedigree (obtained from 
another dealer) which took 73 days to mature be- 
cause of bad weather. As in 1914 the first picking 
came June 7th, but the seed in this instance was 
sown March 23d. In spite of or perhaps because 
of this crop’s slow development I got double the 
yield of the 1914 season, however. (See the article 
on page 88, March issue.) 
Getting back definitely now to the 1914 season, 
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