Radek Tesár 30. 5. 2025 clock 3 minutes video
The peas are a sweet classic, the lens again a valuable source of protein. You know that both legumes can easily be grown in your own garden. Just follow a few simple principles and your own harvest will pleasantly surprise you.
Growing legumes is no longer the privilege of large fields. With a little care, they are doing great on smaller beds or even in raised boxes. The peas will please anyone who likes to take something sweet directly from the pods, while the lens offers a valuable source of fiber and is an ideal ingredient for soups, salads and spreads. And what is the best? Both crops do not require too much effort. If you know when and how to sow them, it will reward you with rich and healthy harvest. In addition, by setting these plants in your garden, you will enrich the soil with nitrogen, which will be appreciated by the other vegetables you grow. In short, legumes can be useful and tasty at the same time.
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Tips on how to grow peas and lentils
Start with the peas as soon as the soil permits, ideally 4 to 6 weeks before the last frosts. But do not be tempted by the first sunny days if you have a garden susceptible to wetting. Peas hate the state in the water! Put him in a raised flower bed or on a slight slope, rather than in the puddle, where the water flows faster. If there is a risk of long rain, start with a cultivation at home in the cups or, for example, rolls from toilet paper and then plant the seedlings in the flowerbed. This avoids rotten seeds and disappointment of failure.
Whether you grow peas or lens, you will save your work when you offer them support from the beginning. For peas is an ideal grille, string or mesh, which climbs itself. But don’t forget to help him a little before he gets caught. Place the structure where plants will be protected from a steep afternoon sun, ideally on the eastern or northeast side of the garden. The peas love light, but hates overheating. This will extend the harvest and avoid dry, stiff pods.
For lens and peas the soil is the foundation. Do not forget to work into the flower bed a few weeks before sowing, which will ensure enough nutrients while helping to maintain moisture. But beware, nitrogen legumes do not need, they produce it themselves due to cooperation with soil bacteria. Too nitrogen would lead to a lush green matter, but a weak harvest. Talk to the weed with a layer of mulch of straw or cut grass. This reduces the growth of undesirable weeds, and the mulch will help maintain the soil sufficiently moist. And most importantly, it will save you time when hoeing.
A garden that gives more than just a crop
Growing peas and lenses has its demands, but the reward is not only tasty harvest, but also the joy of own work and quality land, which improves every year. As already mentioned, these kinds of legumes enrich your flower bed with nitrogen, so you can easily grow even more demanding crops. And if you have more seeds than you can sow, try germinating them as micro -green or pea shoots. They grow fast, taste great and give salads spring freshness even at a time when it is still cold outside.
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