Re: Peas don't sprout
- To: propagation@mallorn.com
- Subject: Re: Peas don't sprout
- From: m* l* <m*@micron.net>
- Date: Sun, 28 Mar 1999 09:26:23 -0700
At 11:03 AM 3/28/99 EST, you wrote:
>My husband, the vegetable gardener, has trouble gettin g his peas to sprout.
>We get them fresh every year from Pinetree and Cook's Garden and dust them
>with innoculant before planting. Some years none comes up at all!
Yesterday he
>planted about half and set me to researching a better way to sprout the rest.
>Any advice?
>Betsey in Yardley, PA zone 6
>
Have you tried digging up a few? Are they being eaten underground?
Sprinkling diazinon in the trench helps with that, although I hate to do
it. I don't know what organic growers do for beans or peas when this is the
case, although I have asked on the OGL list and received no answer. The
more organic matter I incorporate, the larger the population of things that
eat organic matter (including seeds). Margaret L
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