Morale and vitamins before anything else is ready. Peas also fix a little nitrogen.

Sow

As soon as the ground can be scratched — often mid-March. Peas 1 in deep. Radish and lettuce surface-sown and firmed.

Spacing

Peas 2 in on a low fence. Radish 1 in. Lettuce 8 in for heads, scatter for cut salad.

Days

Radish 25; lettuce 45; peas 60

Harvest

Radish before they split. Peas when pods fatten. Lettuce in the morning.

Store

These do not store. Eat, share, or succession-plant. Peas can be shelled and dried.

Seed

Let a row of peas dry on the vine. Lettuce — one plant goes to a tower of seed. Isolate types.

Companions

Carrot, radish as a row marker for carrots. Peas with a low brassica.

Pests

Slugs on lettuce — beer traps or night patrol. Birds on peas — row cover until 4 in tall.

August 1–15 is the secret second season. Hot July seedbeds need shade cloth or afternoon plank shade.