Austrian Winter Pea

Pisum sativum arvense

Fabaceae (Legume)

A winter legume that fixes nitrogen and gives you edible pea shoots as a bonus cool-season green.

Cover cropFixes nitrogenBuilds soilCool-seasonEdible

Austrian Winter Pea (Pisum sativum arvense) illustration — Texas Roots plant database, by Jordan Polasek

Sun

Full sun

Water

Moderate

Soil

Average

pH

6.0–7.5

Hardiness

Cool-season annual

Height

2–4 ft

Spacing

Broadcast

Days to harvest

Fall sow

What it is

Austrian Winter Pea (Pisum sativum arvense) is in the Fabaceae (Legume) family. A winter legume that fixes nitrogen and gives you edible pea shoots as a bonus cool-season green.

How to grow it

It wants full sun, water it moderate, and give it average soil. Target a soil pH around 6.0–7.5. Space plants about Broadcast apart. Expect roughly Fall sow. Cool-season annual.

How it's used

Austrian Winter Pea is used: cover; shoots edible.

🔎 How to identify it

Tendrils, paired leaflets
Purple/white flowers
Sprawling winter growth

Edibility

PartsShoots and seed

UsesCover; shoots edible

CautionNone.

🌤 Before you plant: check the live 7-day garden weather to time it right for frost and heat.

Part of the free Texas Roots plant database, compiled by Jordan Polasek from his greenhouse in El Campo, Texas. Free to read and share. If it helped, the best thanks is to grow something.