Vegetables · Cool
Pea
Fabaceae
At a glance
- Plant spacing
- 10 cm
- USDA zones
- 3a–9a
- Frost-sensitive
- no
- Growth duration
- 10 weeks
Which beds suit?
- Sun (prefers)
- full sunAlso okay:partial shade
- Soil (prefers)
- loamyAlso okay:raised-bed mixsandy
- Drainage (prefers)
- normalAlso okay:very free-draining
Seed & start
Direct sow
Sow directly into the bed — no pre-culture needed.
Stachi's tip
Peas like it cool — sow mid-March, harvest in June. Sugar snap peas are kid-friendly (eat the whole pod). A 1 m stake or twigs is enough support. Like beans, nitrogen-fixers — great precursor for heavy feeders.
Sowing
Harvest
Good neighbours
Avoid these neighbours
Good pre-cultures
Stachi has no specific pre-cultures recorded.
Sources
- Kreuter, Bio-Garten
- Kosmos Gartenkalender
- LLM-Baseline-Intercrop
- LLM-Baseline-2026-05-09 yieldKg
- LLM-Baseline-2026-05-10 family-zehrer
- LLM-Baseline-2026-05-10 sun-soil-drainage
Articles about this plant
French beans in the raised bed: why you need to pick every two days
Beans stop producing the moment the first pods go too ripe. Miss a week of picking and the plant thinks it's done. How it happens, how to spot it, and why two minutes every other day makes all the difference.
Heavy, medium and light feeders: the nutrient table for your raised bed
Some plants eat a lot, some almost nothing. Knowing which is which lets you spread your bed's strength across the years — and stops you planting two hungry crops on the same spot two years running. The table plus the crop-rotation logic behind it.
2026 sowing calendar for your raised bed (DACH)
A sowing calendar for all of 2026 — month by month, what to start indoors, sow directly, and plant out. With the one catch most calendars don't mention.
Related plants
Products mentioned in this post
- Plantura organic tomato seed set (10 varieties)Open-pollinated, good germination — robust for raised beds.
- Organic tomato seed set, 14 varieties
- Organic heirloom tomato seed set (Demeter, 12 varieties)
- Organic vegetable seed set, 10 varietiesCucumber, tomato, beetroot, broccoli, carrot, chard & more.