We grow a considerable variety of vegetables from seed: beans, beets, turnips, radishes, kale, sometimes corn, etc. We get good germination rates on pretty much everything, except peas. (Snow & Sugar Snap, if it matters.) For those, we get maybe one in ten, at best. The few that do germinate seem to grow OK. Not that we have a lot to compare them to.
We're in central NY, zone 5-ish. We start planting (peas) around mid-April, depending on the weather, and give up around the beginning of June.
I kind of suspect the problem is soil temperature. But (a) you're supposed to plant peas early (?), and (b) everything else explodes in early June, so it seems like we've covered both ends of the temperature range.
Any thoughts would be appreciated.
Thanks, G