Try these peas and beans for fall planting

Even if it can be fall, it is not too late to sow and grow. With the right strategies, even in cooler climatic areas, it is possible to develop yours throughout the year. The key is to choose the right strategies and good cultures and varieties for your specific situation.

In September, I turn my attention to the varieties of peas and beans in my polytunnel garden. Garden peas, Pisum Sativumand large beans, or fava beans, Vicia Faba, are two of the fall planting options that I often missed in my polytunnel to provide a previous harvest of these cultures next year.

The main key to wintering success is to choose the good varieties of the crops you want to cultivate. Some varieties will be better suited to cold winter conditions than others.

Here are some peas and beans to search if you want to plant in the fall rather than in the spring or early summer.

Pea varieties for fall planting

When you choose peas for sowing in cold weather, search for smooth and round varieties, as these tend to be more resistant than those with wrinkled seeds. The wrinkled type can tend to be modeled if they are cultivated in the colder and wet conditions of the last part of the year and do better when sown in spring.

Certain varieties of peas that I found useful for winter culture include:

• Avola
• Amelioree d’Auvergne
• Sweet Provence
• Feltham first
• Glory of Devon
• Annonay’s hatif
• Meteor
• GUILLOTEA

From the above, I had the most success with dwarf varieties like soft Provence and Meteor, which are easier to integrate into the polytunnel and also easier to manage during the coldest part of the year, because they can be more easily covered because of their smaller size.

My favorite is currently Meteor, who has excellent cold rusticity and will grow less than 20 inches high, so even works in small spaces.

Protection of pea hierarchies is necessary in addition to the polytunnel itself – not much for protection against cold, but more for protection against creatures such as mice and campagnols. I found easier to develop smaller dwarf varieties during the winter so that they can be more easily protected from animals, which is more a problem during the coldest part of the year.

Fava bean varieties for fall planting

Favorizers are definitely among the easiest autumn crops – hard enough to go too much in many regions and easily winter in a polytunnel where I live in Scotland.

Large bean or beans commonly cultivated in the United Kingdom for wintering include:

• CLAUDIA AGUADULCE
• Superaguadulce
• Posek Manita

I successfully developed each of these three varieties in my polytunnel. And also winter the field beans even more rigid outside.

Even if you have trouble wintering the typical Fava bean food varieties where you live, more robust terrain beans can be an option. And although these are generally cultivated as coverage crops, they also provide edible return, although the one that tends to be smaller than the yields of the varieties mentioned above.