Inoculating Winter Peas

[Victor Van Meter]

Plan to plant some winter peas in my fall plot and have been reading about inoculating the seed. Looking for advice on what inoculation to use? Thanks for the help.


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[Rit]

Check with the place you buy your seed from. Innocent for AWPs should only run you around $8 per 100lbs of seed. Welter seed sells N-Dure products.

 

[Victor Van Meter]

Thanks.


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[bbcoach]

IMO probably not necessary. When I've planted AWP, the deer have decimated them before they get very big. There like a small patch of soybeans, the deer eat them like candy.

 

[wiscwhip]

As stated above, winter peas will not grow long enough or get large enough to form root nodules before the deer hoover them to the dirt, so inoculation is not necessary.

 

[j-bird]

Man I wish I had a pic of when we did mine. The kids wanted to help. So I dumped the seed into a plastic wading pool and sprayed a slight mist of water on them and then sprinkled on the "stuff". I told the kids to have at it and mix it all up so all the seeds looked dirty. They did! They had a ball.....I got yelled at.....Mom wasn't so happy!

I agree in that I doubt it is needed unless you are planting either a huge amount of them OR you have grossly low deer numbers. Otherwise other than a few the deer don't find.....they will be gone come spring.

 

[Victor Van Meter]

Sounds good. I assume they will be eaten before they get very big, so I will skip the inoculant.


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