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How to Grow Pea Shoots Indoors

Grow snow pea shoots indoors, all year round, without single-use plastic, with this easy guide.
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Ingredients

  • A box of dried whole peas
  • A tub You can re-use a plastic food tray such as the kind you get when you buy tomatoes or grapes, a takeaway container, an old Tupperware tub, or a bowl. There's no need to buy anything new.
  • Cotton wool, kitchen roll, or crumpled newspaper
  • Water

Instructions

  • First you need to work out how many peas you need. To do so place the dried peas into the empty tub of your choosing - ensuring the peas are densely packed in one layer only.
  • Empty the peas into a glass of water to soak overnight. Don't skip this step. We did this the first time around and the peas never came to anything.
  • The next day drain your peas and line your tub with a thin layer of damp cotton wool, kitchen roll or newspaper (perhaps a centimetre thick).
  • Add your peas to the container, spreading them across the container so they aren't all clumped in one spot.
  • Leave the tub on a sunny window ledge, and water when the cotton wool, kitchen roll or newspaper feels a bit dry. Be careful not to add too much water, as they will start to rot. As a rule, the cotton wool (or whatever you're using) should feel damp, not sodden. If you accidentally add too much water, drain it out.
  • Harvest once they are a few inches tall.