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Te Anau Salad Pea

Pisum sativum

A variety of pea

How to sow Te Anau salad pea: direct

Sun requirement for Te Anau salad pea: Plant in Full Sun

A dwarf shellout pea whose tendrils can be harvested for salads, tasting like pea sprouts. Transplant at 20 cm diagonal spacing. One of three seed lines from a Banks Peninsula garden kept by descendants of French settlers.

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Te anau salad pea facts

Lifespan

Annual living and reproducing in a single year or less

Growing Te Anau salad peas

  1. Dig the bed and add compost 1 week before sowing
  2. Put up supports for the vines 1 week after sowing
  3. Water regularly at sowing every week
  4. Weed gently by hand 3 weeks after sowing every 2 weeks
  5. Tie in the shoots 4 weeks after sowing every 2 weeks
  6. Pick pods regularly at first harvest every week
  7. Pull out finished vines and dig in the roots 4 weeks after first harvest

Plant Te Anau salad peas with

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Ecological requirements

Data from the FAO EcoCrop database for Pisum sativum L.

Family / Taxonomy Magnoliopsida
Rosidae
Fabales
Leguminosae
Optimal temperature 10 - 24 °C
Absolute temperature 4 - 30 °C
Killing temperature growth: 0 °C, rest: -2 °C
Optimal rainfall 800 - 1200 mm/year
Absolute rainfall 350 - 2500 mm/year
Optimal soil pH 5.5 - 7.0
Absolute soil pH 4.5 - 8.3
Crop cycle 60 - 140 days
Max altitude 2700 m
Life form herb
Life span annual
Habit prostrate/procumbent/semi-erect, climber/scrambler/scadent
Optimal soil depth medium (50-150 cm)
Optimal soil texture heavy, medium, light
Optimal soil fertility moderate
Optimal soil drainage well (dry spells)
Optimal soil salinity low (<4 dS/m)
Photoperiod short day (<12 hours), neutral day (12-14 hours)
Optimal light very bright

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Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (2025) ECOCROP, the crop ecological requirements database. Version 1. https://data.apps.fao.org/catalog/dataset/ecocrop. Accessed through the CGIAR Climate Action Data Hub, https://cgiar-climate-data-hub.github.io/catalog/ecocrop_1/.

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