PlantSowGrow
How to grow Asparagus Pea
Lotus tetragonolobus
🥕 Vegetable
🌱 Grown each year
A pretty, sprawling plant with crimson flowers and winged pods that taste a little of asparagus. Pick them tiny!
At a glance: Sow early May to late May, harvest from early July.
When to sow, plant and harvest
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Sow outdoors
Harvest
Timed for a typical UK garden (last frost mid-April). The app uses your own town's frost dates.
Growing Asparagus Pea: what it needs
- Light
- Full sun · 6+ hours a day
- Watering
- Water regularly in dry weather
- Soil
- Fertile, well-drained soil
- Spacing
- 30 cm
- In pots
- Grows well in containers
- Feeding
- A general feed before sowing or planting
- Harvest
- About 70 days from sowing
- Hardiness
- USDA zones 3–9
- Difficulty
- Easy
Step by step
- Early May – late May · 3 weeks after the last spring frost
Sow Seeds Outdoors
Sow thinly in drills where they are to grow. Sow 2 cm deep.
- 7–14 days after “Sow Seeds Indoors” · Mid May
Check Germination
Seedlings should appear in 7–14 days. If sown outdoors, thin to 30 cm apart when big enough to handle.
- 7–21 days after “Plant Out” · Mid May – early June
Add Support
Push twiggy sticks in around the plants to hold them off the ground.
- 56–77 days after “Check Germination” · Early July – late July
Start Harvesting
Pick pods at 2–3 cm long, every day or two — bigger pods turn stringy.
- 45–75 days after “Start Harvesting” · Late August – late September
Finish and Clear
Clear the remains to the compost heap once cropping ends.
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