I am happy to report a success in my gardening this year although I almost forgot what I had done to achieve that success. The past couple of years I haven’t had the greatest luck with my snap peas. The first year I planted I had so many I didn’t know what to do with them and then subsequent years I was lucky to get more than a handful of them. This year I have bags and bags full!! Then I remembered that this year I tried a bean inoculant.
I started reading about how beans help to bring nitrogen to the soil but that they need a certain bacteria to get this process going. That bacteria should be in the soil but since I use store bought sterilized soil it’s not. Obviously since this is the only thing I did it seems to be working. I have it growing in two seperate patches and they both are producing a lot. My mother tried to grow some and hardly has any peas is it producing. She didn’t use the inoculant.
I made a little furrow and just poured the inoculate on the soil. Then I planted a seed over that and then covered that with soil and watered well. There are lots of various methods online but that is what I did. We enjoyed this dish made with meat and fried senorita jalapenos and onions from the freezer from last years harvest. The peas were stir fried in the pan along with the meat and the already cooked mild peppers and caramelized onions! YUM!