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26 May 10, Jessica (Australia - cool/mountain climate)

Thanks for the tip! The plants have finished poddong so I'm going to get rid of them. Is there anything I can plant to make use of the trelise that is still there?

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27 May 10, (Australia - cool/mountain climate)

I know it's not ideal to plant the same thing in the same spot repeatedly because of pests building up in the soil, but you could put in some more snowpeas for this season, maybe digging in a bit of compost first.

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30 May 10, Heyden (Australia - cool/mountain climate)

Why do my organic snowpeas have tiny brown spots all over the peas and flowers, they also seem to be stunted a little? How can i fix this problem organically?

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07 Jun 10, mick (Australia - cool/mountain climate)

how long do snow peas take to grow?

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30 Jun 10, Natalie (Australia - sub-tropical climate)

12-14 weeks

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28 Jun 10, Jane (Australia - temperate climate)

When growing snow peas do you need to fertilise them?

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29 Jun 10, Natalie (Australia - sub-tropical climate)

pretty sure peas get most of their nutrients from the air. they don't like heavily composted ground I believe. I wouldn't use commercial fert. but some worm juice might be okay. avoid watering leaves. adding potash to soil before sowing is good as well.

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13 Jul 10, Antechinus (Australia - temperate climate)

Plants can't get nutrients from the air (except carbon, which isn't really a 'nutrient' because it's essential from any growth). They all get nutrients from the soil by some method. Peas and other legumes (plus wattles) have symbiotic bacteria in their roots that 'fix' nitrogen, meaning peas can get at and concentrate soil nitrogen much more efficiently than other types of plants. This means they don't need as much fertiliser as other vegies do and are good to dig into the soil to concentrate plant-available nitrogen for future crops. I assume that they're still pretty hungry for other nutrients though - so a bit of fertiliser won't go astray.

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20 Dec 10, David (Australia - cool/mountain climate)

Need to know what type of fertlizer I should use on my climbing peas there is good growth and some flowering however they look like they need some encouragement, maybe a specific fertiliser or tonic eg Seasol???

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27 Feb 11, Bug (Australia - arid climate)

Anything will do, a side dressing of compost and rock minerals (or complete trace elements) will be all that is needed for the most brilliant green pods. Cheers

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