Healthy soil and sustainable growing

[Dieter Brand <diebrand@yahoo.com>]

That could well be it.  There is no need to use fertilizer for legumes like

peas.  A little compost or wood ash won´t do any harm though.

yarrow@sfo.com wrote:

> Speaking of brix...I was talking with a fellow community gardener 
> today, who was wondering why her snow peas were not sweet. So we 
> taste-tested hers and mine; mine were sweet, hers were more bland and 
> did have a bitter edge. I grew mine with homemade compost; she used 
> an organic fertilizer (EB Stone?). We both watered every 2-3 days, 
> and picked them at about the same size. Maybe hers had too much N?
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