What did you plant at 3rd week of May? If you planted tomatoes then, peas could/should have been sown a month to 6 weeks earlier, as soon as the ground had thawed enough to work.pow wow wrote:This is not good news. We don't plant our veggie gardens up here until the third week of May. So my peas are only a foot tall and no pods yet. It's been years since I grew snaps but the last time I did I had a big harvest from them.
JC is right. Shaded areas are microclimates that can be very useful. My peas in the spiral garden are intentionally planted in the section that is shaded for most of the morning, which is helping. If you have a noon day shade or late afternoon shade area, that would be even better.
I've read that peas/beans and onion/garlic are not friends. Before I got obsessed with gardening, (and hence read every book I could get my hands on) I never gave planting beans, peas and onions together any thought. They've always grown well together for me too! The only exception were walking onions. The peas didn't like them.