Shelling peas

[CrealCritter]

Anyone have a favorite shelling peas they like to grow?

 

[Britesea]

There are a lot of parts of our veggies that most people don't eat. Radish leaves have a mild bite like watercress, but the texture means they need to be cooked- I've done both cream soup and stir fry with them.,. and the spent cobs for corn can be boiled to make a "corn broth" that adds a lot of flavor to a chowder. Carrot greens are edible too.
One of the prettiest presentations I ever saw was a "nest" of corn silk that had been quickly fried to make it crispy, and then a poached egg had been slipped into the nest with a few sprinkles of fresh herbs.

 

[CrealCritter]

I planted Alaska last year also, but they didn't germinate well. We've had a couple poor years for peas in a row here. I am going to try them again next year! I try new varieties [of everything] each year just because. variety is good!

Alaska - 5 or 6 peas per pod and if I remember correctly they only get about 2' tall. But they are loaded down with pods. Peas, I always plant two or three per hole and thin out to 1. Because your right, peas really don't germinate very well.

It's always really wet in late winter / early spring. I mostly have to rake up the rows high and trench deep in my spring garden or else most seedlings drown. My spring garden is on a slight two way slope. Higher on the south & east sides. So I have my draninage trench on the west side, that runs north and south down to the creek. I run my raised rows run west to east so the rain drain off into the north / south facing trench. After the spring rains subside I fertlize, cultivate and mulch in-between the rasised rows to conserve water and keep the weeds down.

Here's what my Alaska shelling peas looked like in spring of 2017 they are on the left, the ones on the right were sugar peas, that we didn't like much. I can't remember the type they we're though. They really spread so they need the rows spaced further than 3' apart like is pictured. So you can get in there and cultivate, weed and pick.

 

[Hinotori]

Green shelling pea. I just really remember sneaking into the garden and eating them raw.

 

[frustratedearthmother]

I've grown several of the sugar snap varieties - but I don't shell 'em - we eat 'em whole. Usually raw and right there in the garden lol!

 

[CrealCritter]

Are puple hull amd blackeyed really peas? Darn straight they are!

 

[tortoise]

I grow over 200 row-feet of peas. I have settled with planting in succession with the first variety being Little Marvel planted before last frost, then Maestro, and Wando last. Wando is the most heat tolerant and extends pea season by a couple weeks.

I tried purple pod peas this past spring. I was hoping for something easier to pick. That they were. very pretty flowers and plants. The texture of the peas was terrible. Not even edible. Grainy and smushy. I like Maestro peas best that are succulent and "pop" when bitten into.

 

[tortoise]

I planted Alaska last year also, but they didn't germinate well. We've had a couple poor years for peas in a row here. I am going to try them again next year! I try new varieties [of everything] each year just because. variety is good!

 

[Britesea]

Those tendrils are good eatin' too

 

[frustratedearthmother]

That's beautiful - at first glance whodda thought it was edible?