Thanks, my grandpa was a pea farmer (started a different business well before I was around) so my Mom should know. But the specifics are vague from her-she never grew peas, beets or potatoes in her garden.
Only a basic garden here, we use the “Back to Eden” method using wood chips so that may warm the soil up a bit, but not like a covered raised bed.
Good luck Northstar Mom!
I plant a couple of varieties of snap peas — Supper Snappy & Super Sugar Snap. They’re so good, they rarely make it into the house, except maybe a few for a salad. I usually wind up eating them right off the vine in the morning, still moist with industrial-pollution dew! ;>)
It’s also a good time too think about other cool-weather crops, like cauliflower, radishes and carrots
If you put wood chips in the soil it will suck out all of the nitrogen and you won’t get a crop. Use wood chips in places you want to keep clean of weeds and you aren’t trying to grow something. If you already put the wood chips into the garden, you will need to supplement with a lot of extra nitrogen until the wood break down.