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Target plant: Snow peas.

Main Pest: pea pest

How to avoid pea pest


 * Select disease - resistant seed varieties
 * well-drained soil is important in eliminating diseases. If soil tends to be wet, raised beds are the best idea.
 * Plant in wide rows and used much in walkways to prevent raindrops from splashing soil-bourne disease spores up onto the plants
 * Stay out of the garden when plants are wets. The less plants are disturbed when they're wet ,the better. It's too easy to spread waterbourne bacteria and fungi if your in the garden when the plants are wet.
 * Keep the garden area weeded and clean of debris.Rotate your pea crop every year to avoid soilbourne diseases.A good rule oft thumb is to avoid planting legume crops in the same area three years in a row.
 * Pull out and burn disease ridden plants.