WOW that is a nice crop of peas. I wonder if each pot has more than 1 plant per pot. Picture show 9 peas per pod for 3 pods then 10 peas in the other pod. His plants are loaded with big pods. He made a soil mound under an irrigation pipe.applestar wrote: ↑Sat Dec 19, 2020 1:54 pmFWIW — You might remember last year I was really binge-watching this Japanese YouTuber. He originally worked in ministry of agriculture, and after retiring, started a blueberry farm and has a teaching position at an agricultural university and a co-op.
This is a video from last November (11/5/19) when he was planting green pea seedlings started in small pots —- looks like about 3 inch? — 3 to a pot. He is planting them 20cm apart under a narrow arch-tunnel covered with what looks like — this blue mesh — commercial wind break mesh (in the US I have found them advertised for athletic fields, too). There is a later video of a different market farmer posting video for progress on his pot-started snap peas and broad beans on 11/25/19.
— so the common technique for them is starting the seeds in containers and transplanting well-started Plants —
I’m not sure without watching more videos whether he will later cover the tunnel with Greenhouse plastic, but the area he lives in is similar in seasonal climate to TN or GA. He doesn’t talk in his videos but a caption at the end said “Looking forward to the spring harvest!” And his “spring” videos are labeled as such starting around mid-February (which in my area is still Winter....)
- in the opening slide-show, he shows current progress of garlic in the ground (the way the greens are growing are indicative of his climate NOT being same as mine — somewhere further south with less freezing), daikon growing in potting mix/fertilizer bags, pot-started broad beans and snap peas which he is apparently not planting yet, etc.
...watched the video again — in caption, he mentioned that in addition to the wind-break mesh on the north side, the arch is under where the massive bird-proof netting, which during the summer season covers the ENTIRE blueberry planting area Is GATHERED against the wind-break mesh covered border fencing framework and secured during the off-season. So he doesn’t think any additional frost-proofing would be necessary.
...BTW this model — covering the ENTIRE blueberry orchard by surrounding with wind-break mesh fencing and covering high overhead with bird-proof netting on wire cable support — is something I’m trying to adapt in obviously much smaller scale for my own garden...
My plants never look that good, they are skinny like they need, more sun, more fertilizer, more water, with not many leaves & not many pods & pods are small with few peas. Pods average about 1 to 3 peas per pod.