22peas.html Chapter 22 Peas Link to IPM Elements for peas here. Edible pod, round Sugar Snap Super Snap II Processing Use varieties recommended by processors. Hot, dry conditions in July adversely affect yield, so it is advantageous to have the crop mature as early as planting schedules allow.
Peas are very sensitive to atrazine residues.
Do not plant in fields where more than one pound of atrazine was applied the previous year. Plant at a uniform depth of no more than one inch unless the soil is exceptionally dry. Rolling or cultipacking the soil after planting will firm the ground and push stones into the soil, which facilitates machine harvest. Attaching the roller behind the drill eliminates an additional set of tractor wheel marks and too much soil compaction on some rows of planted peas. In general, seed should not be inoculated with symbiotic bacteria that fix nitrogen.