I've several peas growing this year - the very tall Ne Plus Ultra, the very short Norli and Taiwan Sugar (pictured) which is already about 4 foot tall even though I've seen it described as a very short dwarf variety.
And it was from the last two that we had our first harvest of peas over the weekend. They'd been sown in gutters, overwintered in the green house and were planted out in February. . .
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Posted by John Curtin Reblogged by Old Roses to peas on 2008-05-28, 07:13:42
Gardeners here on the subtropical Gulf Coast are extremely well acquainted with fast-growing legumes. The most infamous is kudzu, a Japanese native plant innocently promoted in the 1930s as a means of erosion control. Farmers were paid $8 an acre to plant the twisting, woody vine in their unused fields, where it rapidly swallowed up the [...]
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Posted by valwebb Reblogged by Old Roses to peas on 2008-04-11, 06:39:27
I like to get the pea trellis up before the peas sprout. This year I made a zig-zag trellis from poles and sticks and tie-wrapped a white plastic net to it. It seems a bit wobbly and I may need to reinforce it with more poles later. . . .
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Posted by kathy Reblogged by Old Roses to peas, tools on 2008-04-04, 06:20:01
Do you love to eat peas but don't live near a supermarket? Have you wished you could grow peas in your own garden but never tried because it was just too complicated?
Well wish no more because with the Planting Peas instructional video, you'll be planting peas in no time.
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Posted by Anthony Reblogged by Old Roses to peas, tools on 2008-03-26, 18:14:55
Around here gardeners like to plan events in the garden according to Holidays. St. Patrick's Day is when they say you should plant peas, so I dutifully built my pea trellises and planted peas last Sunday (the day before St. Patty's Day).
Maybe it's not just around here where gardeners shoot for pea planting on the Irish holiday because peas were planted in Skippy's Vegetable Garden on St. Patrick's day too. . . .
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Posted by Marc Reblogged by Old Roses to peas, planting on 2008-03-20, 18:58:10
St PatrickÂ’s Day means more than green beer and bagels to gardeners. It means itÂ’s time to plant your peas. Although a time honored tradition, for many...
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Posted by Reblogged by Old Roses to peas on 2008-03-18, 00:18:09
We don't hear very much about the heath pea these days, but back in King Charles II's time, it was a popular appetite suppressant.
Otherwise known as bitter vetch, heath pea (Lathyrus linifolius) was a necessity in Medieval times. Appetite suppressants weren't usually used for vanity's sake. Instead, they were a necessary evil, used to avoid hunger during years when crops failed. Eating the plant's tiny licorice-flavored tuber is said to have destroyed the appetite for weeks. Apparently, once potatoes took off, everyone's belly was kept full so the plant wasn't needed any more. . .
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Posted by Jessica Damiano Reblogged by Old Roses to peas on 2008-03-07, 06:17:09
I meant to post this the middle of December. The current garden developments only add support. Reading through last years notes the brassicas seem to be about six weeks behind. I think the hakusai are of a different variety as they have bristly trichomes along the veins and seem to be squatter in shape. . . .
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Posted by Reblogged by Old Roses to peas on 2008-01-10, 18:10:41
My fall crop of peas is a couple feet tall now. I planted them on August 11. The variety is Alderan (Tall Telephone).
Here's the description form Sandhill Preservation Center, where I got these heirloom seeds: "Alderman (Tall Telephone): 75 days. I remember how much I enjoyed growing this variety in the cooler Springs in the Northwest. There it would reach 6 feet tall and be loaded with pods. Our rapidly changing climate here makes them shorter."
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Posted by carletongardener Reblogged by Old Roses to peas on 2007-10-09, 00:53:31
Mississippi Crowder Peas (Cowpeas, Southern Peas, Vigna uniguiculata). Aren't they lovely? The top are the seeds I'm saving for next summer; the bottom, some freshly-shucked peas for tomorrow's sup.
I took a few minutes this past holiday weekend to paint a new back door welcome sign. I use to craft quite regularly, but in the last few years' time crunch have totally ignored most of my projects. I felt this one was needed though as the door needed "something" and all my other signs are holiday/seasonal. This one will do for in the in-between holidays period. The fabric painting actually went fairly quickly - I traced the peas from a pattern book. The canvas sign is from Oriental Trading. I have about 20 more blank banners in my craft storage. Next time my niece's come over for an extended visit I think I'll put them to work on making a few more. . . .
Snow Peas and Sweet Peas, Beans and Renoir Lillies
A neighbor was kind enough to give Sara a Jasmine plant (Jasminum polyanthum) and it’s blooming. The sweetest, most pleasing fragrance wafts over the section of the courtyard where it resides in a container. . . .
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Posted by Tim Reblogged by Old Roses to peas on 2007-07-21, 06:15:22
I keep getting more snap peas! The first crop was great and I never expected the plants to flower again and keep producing peas. My green shell peas stopped flowering several weeks ago and I pulled them, but these snap peas keep going strong.
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Posted by carletongardener Reblogged by Old Roses to peas on 2007-07-20, 06:13:41
I planted far too few peas last year. I need to plant my peas like this in the fall... that looks to be a 4'x4' slightly raised bed built using some some one-by's, and garden twine. I'll probably tweak the design and use conduit and wire.
                                                                 This was taken with my old polaroid sx-70.Â
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Posted by sandy Reblogged by Old Roses to peas on 2007-07-06, 05:59:32
My Capucijner peas are getting plump. The vines have grown well past my four foot trellis and are climbing on my garden fence. Lots of fat purple pods are hanging on the vines. Most pods are deep purple, but a few are mottled with green and white. . . .
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Posted by carletongardener Reblogged by Old Roses to peas on 2007-07-02, 18:22:12
I harvested a little crop of green peas and made a few nice servings for my summer guests. This is probably all I will get from my back row of Pisselle peas. It is a short variety. (I thought they would be tall and produce more - but they only climbed 1 foot up my 4 foot trellis.) Though I'm complaining a little, I've actually I've never had such a good pea crop, so I'm very pleased.
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Posted by carletongardener Reblogged by Old Roses to peas on 2007-07-01, 01:10:44
This is my first pea harvest. Snap peas and tendrils. Just a small amount. We actually ended up eating them raw in salad. There are many more out there fattening up on the vines.
My favourite time of the year has arrived again. There is nothing better in gardening than that moment of hearing the first pod pop open to reveal those fresh garden peas. My earliest memories of vegetable growing are as a boy of seven visiting grandad's allotment with my father. Where I was allowed to pick pea pods while he did a little digging. The peas, as they are in all vegetable gardens, were eaten on site few ever made the journey home. Evidence of our feast was thrown into the chicken coup for the birds to squabble over. Despite nutritionist's advice that frozen peas are better than shop bought peas, I prefer to pop a pod and if I have none of my own I will splash the cash.
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Posted by Colin & Carol Reblogged by Old Roses to peas on 2007-06-21, 06:13:34
I'm enjoying watching this beautiful pea in my garden. The Capucijner pea is a field pea, a variety specifically grown for drying. Here's some information I found about them: "During the late Middle Ages, Capuchin monks in Holland and northern Germany devoted considerable energy to the improvement of field peas for agricultural purposes. This has resulted in a group of large-seeded gray peas referred to as Capuchin, especially those from the Netherlands where the breeding of new pea varieties became a national pastime by the early 1600s. One of the classic peas from this group and one which dates from the 1500s is the handsome blue pod Capucijner, a soup pea growing on six-foot (two m) vines." (source) My dad can pronounce the Dutch name just fine, but I wouldn't even dare to try.
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Posted by carletongardener Reblogged by Old Roses to peas on 2007-06-13, 06:15:12
Every year I have more seeds, seedlings and volunteer sprouts than usable garden space. Some simply don’t get planted while others become experiments in patio container gardening. I like to think of it as “Research for Readers†(and apartment dwelling friends). But to be perfectly honest, I am dying to get my hands dirty by mid-march. Planting in patio pots prevents me from digging in the garden too early. (Not to mention, our patio tile is super fugly and I try to distract guest from the Menards 69¢ special with planters full of edibles and blooms). . . .
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on Jun 5, 2007, 7:56AM
Posted by Jaime Chismar Reblogged by Old Roses to peas on 2007-06-06, 06:15:59
This is a sugar snap pea. Both my Pisselle peas and sugar snaps have many flowers all of a sudden today. Though the Capucijner peas are 4 feet tall now, they aren't blooming yet. The peas that are blooming are only 1-2 feet tall.
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Posted by carletongardener Reblogged by Old Roses to peas on 2007-06-04, 18:50:46
One day there were flowers, then it seemed like the pods appeared overnight.
I’ve been snapping a few of these off and eating them raw, like snow peas. They’re sweet and delicious. This is my first time growing peas. They’re sort of climbing a trellis and through the fencing of our deck. I say sort of because I haven’t really been training them and they have a tendency to climb all over themselves.
The variety is “Early Spring Peaâ€. I’m growing them in window box type containers. For the record, I didn’t use any inoculant. The seeds were planted back at the beginning of April.
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Posted by gremlin Reblogged by Old Roses to peas on 2007-06-04, 18:43:40
The early summer crops are coming into their own now - mixed leaf salading, rocket, lollo rosso, mint, chive and the first of the sugar snap peas (Norli).
A small bowl but wonderfully crunchy and sweet.
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Posted by John Curtin Reblogged by Old Roses to peas on 2007-06-03, 00:16:38
On May 20th, I noticed the first blossom on the snow peas. This is one that I started inside and transplanted. Last year, the first open blossomwas on June 4th. On May 13th, I planted a few more pea seeds in gaps along the pea fence. I saw last tonight that they are breaking ground.
Are these my best peas ever? This is somewhat embarrasing to admit, but I've never been all that successful at growing peas. Some years the bunnies eat the vines to the ground before they have a chance to flower, or the vines end up so short from bunny nibbling that the few flowers that do form pea pods don't seem like they are worth the effort of finding and harvesting. . . .
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Posted by Carol Reblogged by Old Roses to peas on 2007-05-23, 18:22:40
One shortcoming in our South Bay clay soil is that it can be hard to balance moisture without waterlogging plants. The peas I'd been growing, Super Sugar Snap, did okay in San Jose, in 95112-land, but here in Sunnyvale they had big issues in the combination of clay and my-yard microclimate. Seemed like it was too cold and wet for them to grow, or too hot for them to avoid awful downy and powdery mildew. I tried Oregon Sugar in 2006, hoping that they'd do better than the Sugar Snaps. . . .
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Posted by Strata Reblogged by Old Roses to peas on 2007-05-22, 06:12:05
This year, I decided it was time to go with an early crop, followed by, hopefully, a later crop. That’s right: two for one from the Inadvertent Garden.
Hence the planting of spinach and mesclun mix, of course, but also…the planting of peas. I keep hearing all these wonderful things from other garden bloggers about their fresh peas, and so I thought, this year, that I’d give them a try myself. . . .
via Spade Work : From Plot to Plate on 1969-12-31, 19:00:00I've several peas growing this year - the very tall Ne Plus Ultra, the very short Norli and Taiwan Sugar (pictured) which is already about 4 foot tall even though I've seen it described as a very short dwarf variety.
