Give Peas a Chance

Is is possible to have your heart broken by peas? Or more accurately broken by the rodents who eat the peas the moment they popped out of the ground?

Yes.

Especially when you had 40 feet of them planted with little to show for the effort. What to do, what to do... turn to YouTube, of course. We needed a way to recoup our losses, fast, as our pea-planting-window was closing. Hue Richards to the rescue using gutters for seed trays.

First we purchased 3, 10 ft. gutters, sawed them in half to a manageable size, filled with soil and planted every last pea seed from in the FBG seed bank. Full disclosure, we soaked them overnight. Next we kept the planted trays inside the greenhouse for a bit of extra warmth and two weeks later we had 6 inch peas ready to go.

Now the fun part. Make a trench and slide those babies into place. We timed it and it took 12 seconds per 5 ft. Two weeks later they are taking off like peas should this time of year. Apparently rodents don't like big plants, they like the appetizer, but not something bigger than their head.

Do you have some old gutters needing a new life? Give this time saver a try.