When to plant peas in Alcázar de San Juan: 22 February – 19 September

In Alcázar de San Juan, peas: sow straight into the bed from 22 February to 19 September.

Peas in Alcázar de San Juan: soil, season and weather

Peas tolerates light frost, so it goes in three weeks before the last frost (15 March); the top 7 cm of soil averages its minimum of 4 °C already in the first week of January.

Last spring frost	15 March
Top 7 cm of soil at 4 °C	already in the first week of January
First autumn frost	2 December, 283 days after the start
Days in the bed to the first harvest (card)	74
First harvest, if planted in this window	7 May – 2 December
Days left for picking	209
Daylight	11:00 on 22 February
Watering outdoors when fruiting (card)	every 3 days; the driest month, July, has 1 rainy day

Peas in Alcázar de San Juan: care after planting

Planted on 22 February: in the first weeks water every 6 days.

Pests and diseases of peas to watch for:

Weather in Alcázar de San Juan during the peas season

About 361 mm of rain falls in the season; July is the driest month (3 mm) and March the wettest (63 mm).

Month	Day, °C	Night, °C	Rain, mm	Rainy days	Daylight on the 15th
February	13.9	3.1	24	5	10:43
March	15.7	4.9	63	11	11:54
April	19.1	7.6	57	10	13:13
May	24.7	11.9	29	5	14:19
June	30.6	17.1	19	4	14:56
July	35	20.6	3	1	14:42
August	34.2	20.4	8	1	13:45
September	27.7	15.5	25	4	12:29
October	22.4	11.4	52	7	11:13
November	14.6	5.7	45	8	10:02
December	11.5	3	36	6	9:25

ERA5 2016–2025, Open-Meteo

Peas in nearby cities

Around Alcázar de San Juan, Toledo is 25 days earlier and Cuenca (Spain) 21 days later.

City	Distance	Date	Difference
Ciudad Real	76 km	13 February – 15 September	9 days earlier
Toledo	88 km	28 January – 23 September	25 days earlier
Cuenca (Spain)	119 km	15 March – 31 August	21 days later
Madrid	122 km	1 March – 14 September	7 days later
Albacete	125 km	28 February – 13 September	6 days later
Guadalajara (Spain)	138 km	4 March – 11 September	10 days later

Where to buy peas seeds in Alcázar de San Juan

Seeds go straight into the bed from 22 February to 19 September; buy them before that. Within 15 km of Alcázar de San Juan OpenStreetMap lists 1 garden centre and 1 market (collected 28 October 2026).

Fertyvicam Sl — garden centre
6 km
Mercado Municipal — market
0 km

Each window starts on the Greenly calendar date and ends on the last day that still leaves the crop’s days to harvest (from its card) before the average first autumn frost, plus six weeks of picking for crops harvested over weeks (tomatoes, peppers, aubergines, cucumbers, courgettes, pumpkins, watermelons, beans) — our rule; earlier in the window is safer.

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