Larry,

Southern peas do best on sandy soil that has been enriched with organic matter, but will perform pretty well in any soil. I grow southern peas in improved clay and they do just fine. Without knowing how high your P and K are, it is difficult to guess if southern peas will do well there, but it is likely they will. If planting in soil like that, I wouldn't add any fertilizer at all and especially not nitrogen because they don't need it and it will give you a lot of vine and not many peas.

Southern peas are very sensitive to soil pH, though, and will perform well only if grown in soil that has the pH they need. The pH they need is anything between 5.5 and 7.5.

To ensure you get a good crop, it helps if you innoculate your pea seed with a pea and bean innoculant if you're growing them in an area where peas and beans haven't been grown recently.

I have only harvested one round of new potatoes to eat with the first picking of green beans. I planted potatoes in March and likely won't harvest until sometime after mid-June for the early varieties and not until July for the late ones. Potatoes take quite a while to produce a bountiful harvest! Most potato varieties aren't ready for harvest for me until about 3 to 4 months after I planted the potatoes. If the spring stayed abnormally cool and they got off to a slow start, it can take them about a month longer.

Dawn

Thanks, Dawn

The PH in this part of the garden is 6.2, the P is 363 ppm , the K is 560 ppm, both above optimum.

I would not have dug the potatoes, except they were a lot of yellow leaves and seemed to stop growing. These were the potatoes I bought at a grocery store for $1.00 for a 20# bag. I was smarting off and making fun of my wife because she was going to a lot of trouble, (or making me got through a lot of trouble planting her seed potatoes).
If my potatoes infected her potatoes I would be in the dog house for ever.

The seed potatoes that we planted properly, hilling and all, are looking good.

The potatoes we dug were from soft ball size down to nothing, with most being 1 1/2 to 2 times the size of a golf ball. We did not weigh them but I would guess we got about 150# from 60 feet of row.

If I had kept my smart mouth shut we would have more potatoes this year.

Larry

Larry,

You are so funny. Oh well, nothing beats the taste and texture of young potatoes! Remember though that often the yellowing is normal and is just from heavy rainfall or the sudden onset of heat. Now, if you were seeing brown or black concentric circles on those yellowing leaves, that would be early blight and I wouldn't blame you for wanting to prevent it from spreading.

I plant both certified seed potatoes and grocery store potatoes and have for many years and have never had a serious disease issue with either type...nor has one type seemed either more sickly or more healthy than the other.

Dawn