Description

Soil Builder Peas & Oats is a powerful cover crop mix designed to enrich your soil and promote healthy garden growth. Combining field peas and oats, this hardworking duo works together to improve soil fertility and structure. Peas fix nitrogen, conditioning the topsoil while providing food for pollinators like bees. Oats, in turn, help hold nitrogen, suppress weeds, and add valuable organic material to the soil. Ideal for conditioning areas being turned into gardens, such as lawns or vacant lots, this mix is particularly effective in fall planting, growing quickly in cool weather and providing a protective winter mulch that helps prevent soil erosion. In spring, it is ready to be tilled in, leaving your garden soil nutrient-rich and ready for planting.

This packet sows approximately 80 square feet. 80 sq ft.

Variety Info:

Botanical Name: Pisum sativum, Avena sativa
Days to Maturity: 50–70 days
Family: PEAS: Fabaceae; OATS: Poaceae
Native: PEAS: Africa, Asia, Europe. OATS: Unknown
Hardiness: Frost-tolerant annuals
Plant Dimensions: PEAS: 3'–5' vines OATS: 4' tall
Variety Information: Field peas are climbing vines. Oats produce tall grass-like plants. The peas and oats in this mix are best used as a cover crop and are not good as edible varieties.
Exposure: Full sun

Sowing Info:

When to Sow Outside: Spring: As soon as soil can be worked, and soil temperature is at least 40°F. Fall: 6 to 8 weeks before first fall frost date, and when temperatures are below 80°F. Mild Climates: Sow in fall or winter for growth during the cool season.
When to Start Inside: Not applicable.
Days to Emerge: 7–14 days
Seed Depth: 1″
Seed Spacing: Scatter seeds about 3″ apart
Thinning: Not required

Growing Info:

Harvesting: To harvest pea shoots for eating, snip off the top growth including a set of leaves after plants reach 6″-8″ tall. Plants will continue to grow and branch out. The thin, stringy tendrils can be harvested as desired.