For nitrogen fixing: peas, vetch, lentils, faba beans, clover, alfalfa. For disease control: brown mustard greens, oilseed radish, buckwheat. To break up clay: alfalfa & oil seed radish. In BC, a ...

When you have finished harvesting your sweet pea seeds, cut down and compost the plants. If they have been growing in the soil instead of pots, you could use the stems and roots as green manure.

By BECKY LIVERMORE, Master Gardener The first annual vines in the ground at our place are sweet peas — Lathyrus odoratur. During a well-organized spring, I start them indoors in pots.

Sow seeds in a cold ... and summer sowings. Peas require a sunny, nutrient-rich, moisture-retentive site. Dig over the soil and add plenty of compost or well-rotted manure - this will help to ...