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Legumes
Peas
A cool-season legume, sweet straight off the vine in a way the shop-bought version never matches.
Get your planting dates
This guide covers how to grow, harvest and keep peas, deliberately without sowing dates,
because the right date depends entirely on your climate zone. GardenBuddy's planting calendar
covers all seven Australian climate zones and will tell you exactly when to sow where you live.
Growing
Full sun to part shade, cool conditions, peas stop setting pods once it gets hot. Support with a trellis or stakes even for 'dwarf' varieties.
Common problems
- Powdery mildew as the weather warms up, expect the season to end this way
- Poor germination in waterlogged soil
- Birds stripping seedlings, net if this is a problem locally
Harvest
Snap peas and snow peas: pick young and flat/just-filled. Shelling peas: pick when pods are plump but still bright green.
Preserving this crop
Best suited to:
Seed saving
Difficulty: Easy. Self-pollinating, rarely crosses. Leave pods on the vine until they're dry and papery, then shell.