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I didn’t around to setting up a vegetable bed until about Christmas time, so my cool season veggies are either too late or too early, according to The Old Farmer’s Almanac, but I’d also like to get stuff growing in my veggie patch as soon as possible. Especially nitrifying cover-crop type plants. I’ve decided to start sprouting peas indoors and planting them as soon as they’re sprouted. If I sprout enough for one garden square a week, I’ll be able to get the earliest possible planting, even if some of them die.

My family loves peas, so I ordered three types. I realize now that I probably went overboard, because now I have 700 pea seeds, but whatevs. I might lose 24 at a time running this experiment. I soaked my seeds for a few hours on Christmas eve, and two days later, about half of them have germinated. According to the internet, you can put them in the ground as soon as the root is formed and they’ll grow plantlets above the soil within a week or so (if they survive). I made my sprouting containers out of wide mouth jars from Target and these jar lids with straw holes from Amazon. I popped in a label and some paper towel to soak up additional moisture, and left the straw hole open for ventilation.

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We’re two days in and several of the peas have sprouted. I’ll give the rest of the peas until later today or tomorrow, and then put them in the ground. If I remember to, I’ll do it again next week, and each following week to make sure the earliest possible plants survive… Now I kinda wish I had sprouted more of these in case they all survive.