How to grow tender-pod peas? Master these cultivation essentials

As an emerging specialty vegetable, tender-pod peas are grown in many regions of our country. Today, the editor will mainly walk you through the planting and harvesting techniques for tender-pod peas.

1. Planting: First, pay attention to cultivating and loosening the soil. When vining peas begin to send out vines, set up trellises in time to prevent the stems and vines from lodging. In dry conditions, water once before flowering, and water promptly during the pod-setting stage. Also apply fertilizer once each during the vine-growing and pod-setting stages.

2. Harvesting: When the pods are tender and the seeds have not yet swollen, harvest in time; generally, harvesting tender pods 12-16 days after flowering is ideal. If harvesting green peas, they must be harvested when the peas have swollen and plumped up, the pod color has become lighter, and reticular fibers show on the pod surface, generally about 20 days after flowering. For seed saving, harvest dry peas 40 days after flowering.

Market situation: Tender-pod peas not only have the advantages of a crisp and tender quality, a sweet and fragrant taste, and a bright green color, but are also rich in protein, fat, carbohydrates, crude fiber, vitamins, and relatively comprehensive mineral elements and trace elements and other nutrients, making them very popular with the public.