Pea
Guisante · Pois
🧩 Role in the garden
- Family
- Fabaceae
- Height
- medium (40–100 cm)
- Shape
- climbing
- Roots
- medium depth
- Sun
- full sun
- Season
- cool season
- Grows in
- ❄ winter beds (cool season)
- Feeds
- soil builder
Jobs in the bed
- Soil builderRoot bacteria fix nitrogen and enrich the soil for the next crop.
- Needs a supportClimbs. Give it a trellis or a tall neighbour such as corn or sunflower.
Rotation
Do not return Fabaceae to the same spot for 3–4 years. Same family:
✓ Good neighbours
- ✓ Bean (bush/pole)
- ✓ Carrot
- ✓ Cucumber
- ✓ Corn
- ✓ Potato
- ✓ Radish
- ✓ Spinach
- ✓ Eggplant / aubergine
- ✓ Strawberry
- ✓ Turnip
- ✓ Parsnip
- ✓ Wheat
- ✓ Barley
☀❄ Grows in a different season: not at the same time in the same bed.
✗ Keep apart
None listed.
✿ Helpful flowers & herbs
None listed.