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  • From: Chrys Ostrander <chrys AT thefutureisorganic.net>
  • To: Market Farming <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Market-farming] Seeding peas in trays
  • Date: Sun, 24 Jan 2010 13:50:41 -0800

I also have done this for several years with good success. I use 72-cell "Root Tutor" deep cell flats available at
http://summitplastic.com/s1/index.cfm?powergrid=rfah=|cfap=&fuseaction=productDetail&productID=112

(Click HERE if above link is broken)

I pre-sprout the peas in water in jars or a bucket (soak for 12 hours and then rinse them daily just as you would home-made alfalfa sprouts) and when I see the first root showing I plant those in the flats. This way I get near 100% growing in the flats. When they're six to eight inches tall I transplant them out. I make a furrow and pretty much lay them in right next to each other.

I also have sold these flats of 72 pea plants as-is at the farmers market calling them "Instant Pea Patches". I do the same with corn, selling "Instant Corn Patches."

This is possible with beans, too. I did it once when I worked on someone else's farm with pole beans with good results. It's a good way to reduce seed rotting in the ground, early weed competition, etc.

Chrys

At 12:12 PM 1/24/2010, you wrote:
Allan.Balliett wrote:
> Hi, Etienne! What size cell trays do they use? -Allan in WV

I forgot to ask, sorry!  I was planning on trying 72.


>> Hello list,
>>
>> Last Friday, I attended a CSA farmer conference sponsored by Equiterre,
>> up here in Québec.  It was excellent, very energizing to the aspiring
>> grower that I am.
>>
>> Someone mentioned that she does snow and snap peas seedling in multicell
>> trays.  She transplant at the radicule stage, when the plant poke no
>> more than a quarter inch from the soil.  Apparently, that gains her two
>> weeks in precocity, and she does not suffer spotty germination (and as
>> such, gets better yeld).  I find the idea intriguing, and I will try it
>> in my home garden this year, to see how well it works and how much labor
>> it takes.
>>
>> Does anybody else do that?  I always have been under the impression that
>> peas and beans would suffer from being transplanted, but apparently it
>> is not the case when the seedling is young enough.
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Etienne
>>
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