Author: Marilyn Medina

2. When and How to Buy Peas. Fresh, snow, and sugar snap peas are in season from June until August and you’ll most likely find them in farmers markets or larger supermarkets. How do you buy fresh peas? Fresh English peas should have bright-green pods and a fresh, sweet flavor. A mealy texture means they’re […]

Snap the stem end, then pull along the length of the pod to open the seam, remove the peas, and discard the pod. Snow peas and sugar snap peas can be eaten raw, shells and all. Fresh shelled peas only need to be cooked briefly—just 1–2 minutes. Can you eat spring peas raw? The entire […]

Sweet peas are great companions to roses, both in the garden and in bouquets, and they’re easy to grow. Once they’ve reached climbing stage, I buy sweet pea netting and attach it to poles. The poles here are the green plastic variety found in garden stores. What flowers go with sweet peas? Companions: Plant sweet […]

Both have an identical nutritional profile and very similar flavors although sugar snap peas tend to be sweeter and more flavorful. What is another name for sugar snap peas? Alternate Synonyms for “sugar snap pea”: snap pea; edible-pod pea; edible-podded pea; Pisum sativum macrocarpon. What’s the difference between peas and sweet peas? Garden peas are […]

Perfect for allotments and wildlife gardens, they’re a favourite with pollinators too. Sweet pea seeds are easy to sow and provide a cost effective way to fill your garden. Are sweet peas toxic to animals? Toxicity to pets When ingested, it can cause neurological and musculoskeletal signs including weakness, lethargy, tremors and seizures. Typically, this […]

Companions Sweet peas attract bees and butterflies into the garden. Like other pea family members, they fix nitrogen into the soil and so they benefit a wide range of vegetables such as brassicas, leafy greens like silverbeet and spinach and salads. What can you plant next to sweet peas? Peas – Superb companions for beans, […]

You don’t want your plants forming seed or it will stop the plants producing flowers. The stems on sweet peas get shorter as the season progresses, this is normal due to the energy used to make the flower. Feed, water and deadhead very regularly to encourage more flowers to appear. Why do my sweet peas […]

We check the plants twice a week, continuing to remove side shoots and tendrils as they develop. We’ve found that if we pinch out by hand, the shoots don’t re-grow, whereas if we cut them, they often regrow. How do you pinch out sweet pea shoots? To pinch sweet pea plants, wait until they are […]

Frozen Sweet Peas Snap peas grown in the US ranked as the 20th cleanest vegetable, while imported snap peas ranked as the 14th most pesticide-contaminated vegetable (4). These poorer scores for snap peas are partly due to testing the whole pod — as snap peas are often eaten with the pod. Do snow peas need […]

Can you overcook slow-cooker split pea soup? Split peas take a very long time to soften, so you don’t have to worry about overcooking them. If you’d like the rest of the vegetables in your soup to retain some bite, add them later into the cooking time. Can you overcook split peas? You can ‘t […]

The small white spots are likely to be fungal and more than likely powdery mildew. Powdery mildew presents itself as a dusting of grey-white powder on foliage, and distortion or puckering of new leaves. The infection often begins on the underside of leaves. What causes white spots on snap peas? The first sign of peas […]

Mushy peas are made with marrowfat peas and do not require a potato masher. Is mushy peas made from marrowfat peas? Marrowfat peas are what are traditionally used to make English Mushy Peas and they’re also the variety of pea used to make wasabi peas. They much larger than regular peas and have a particularly […]

And since they are legumes, they are as good for the soil as they are for people. Peas are easy enough to grow. The most difficult part of growing peas is choosing what kind you want to grow. There are basically three types of peas: English peas, snow peas, and sugar snap peassugar snap peasThe […]

Pea crops can be a useful part of a rotation on the farm, peas are harvested fresh for canning, freezing or in the pod or grown on and used for drying, for human or animal consumption. Rotation and growing details can be found in Chapter 16, Combinable Break Crops. What are pea plants used for? […]

Peas and oats, barley or triticale are some of the most common types of intercropping. Pea/cereal mixtures can produce better quality silage than cereals alone. Pea silage could be 13-18% protein so theoretically a pea/cereal mix should have higher pro-tein than a cereal silage alone which is usually about 10% protein. Are peas good for […]

Also, you can soak and feed whole or split peas, from your local feed store, which have lysine. At least these are commonly sold as feed in my area. Can you feed split peas to pigs? Field pea contributes significant amounts of protein, carbohydrates, and amino acids to all species but is increasingly considered an […]

How to plant and care: Plant about an inch deep and 2 to 3 inches apart in rows. (I grew my cream peas as a block, seeds spaced about 6-8 inches apart in a block about four feet square.) Water until the beans emerge. These beans are drought tolerant once they begin to grow well. […]

Tip. Water purple hull peas with compost tea or another low-nitrogen liquid fertilizer halfway through their growing season. Because peas “fix” nitrogen into the soil, too much extra nitrogen cause an imbalance, preventing peas from forming. Do purple hull peas need fertilizer? Keep the peas moist, not drenched. There is no other purple hull pea […]

To freeze, wash shelled peas or butterbeans and blanch in boiling water to cover for 2 minutes; cool immediately in ice water, and drain well. Package in air-tight containers, leaving 1/2-inch headspace, or in zip-top plastic freezer bags, removing as much air as possible. Seal, and freeze up to 6 months. Can you put fresh […]

Wando is an exceptionally sweet pea! The best way to stretch the harvest is to plant early and late varieties. This pea variety is one of the most productive warm weather peas. Which peas are the sweetest? The Dwarf Grey Sugar Pea Flower These flowers can capture the imagination of any child. Edible pod peas […]