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I just planted my first crop of peas to get a jump start on the season. I love fresh garden peas more than anything, and I can almost taste these already!
Super Sugar Snaps are the main variety I plant every year, and they are what went into the ground yesterday. They are my favorites because they produce more in the same space as regular peas. They have wonderful thick crisp boat-shaped pods which are very tender and taste the same as the peas inside. The pods do have strings but they are easy to remove. I tried to take a photo of the package, hope it is clear enough. It is the variety on the left.
The Alaska bush pea is another of my favorites. I will be planting these next. This variety is smaller than the Sugar Snap, and the pod is not edible; however of all the peas locally available in the Pacific Northwest, it matures the fastest. An advantage of this variety is that it does not really need poles.
For stir-fries, I always plant a package of Oregon Sugar Pods. These are a large, flat, edible pod pea which mature nearly as fast as the Alaska.
I also like Green Arrow, Cascadia, and of course the Alderman or "Tall Telephone" pea which after all these years still remains the king of all shell peas, at least for me
It's the other package in the photo.
Every year I end up with a disproportionately large section of my garden planted with peas, but humans are not the only ones who get to enjoy them! The spent vines make some of the best goat fodder in the world. They are almost comparable with alfalfa hay, at least where my wethers are concerned. I let the vines dry out when the weather gets warm and then I take them down, roll them up, and store them in my hay shed for use on rainy days!
Super Sugar Snaps are the main variety I plant every year, and they are what went into the ground yesterday. They are my favorites because they produce more in the same space as regular peas. They have wonderful thick crisp boat-shaped pods which are very tender and taste the same as the peas inside. The pods do have strings but they are easy to remove. I tried to take a photo of the package, hope it is clear enough. It is the variety on the left.
The Alaska bush pea is another of my favorites. I will be planting these next. This variety is smaller than the Sugar Snap, and the pod is not edible; however of all the peas locally available in the Pacific Northwest, it matures the fastest. An advantage of this variety is that it does not really need poles.
For stir-fries, I always plant a package of Oregon Sugar Pods. These are a large, flat, edible pod pea which mature nearly as fast as the Alaska.
I also like Green Arrow, Cascadia, and of course the Alderman or "Tall Telephone" pea which after all these years still remains the king of all shell peas, at least for me
It's the other package in the photo. Every year I end up with a disproportionately large section of my garden planted with peas, but humans are not the only ones who get to enjoy them! The spent vines make some of the best goat fodder in the world. They are almost comparable with alfalfa hay, at least where my wethers are concerned. I let the vines dry out when the weather gets warm and then I take them down, roll them up, and store them in my hay shed for use on rainy days!
