Can’t believe I forgot to mention the peas! We have peas. Lots of ‘em, in fact. These are ‘Sugar Ann,’ a snap pea that grows to about 2ft. tall (and thus doesn’t require staking. Yay!)
Are you growing peas this year? What are your favourite varieties?
And one more thing: Sugar Snaps! Yippee!
I’m growing Sugar Anne snap peas too, though mine are WAY behind yours. MMM they’re so good!
Peas in the shell…Planted last fall, had a rough winter, but made it and began to really grow in the spring. I pick them while in the garden and eat them like candy. Not for cooking at dinner time–just really good snacks. They are almost finished since our weather is now approaching 100 deg. today in the Sierra Nevada foothills.
Your peas are lovely, and I bemoan the fact that we are pea-less this year. Your short variety sounds quite useful too. The last few seasons we’ve grown Early Frosty (available from fedco). They’ve done well for us – good fresh eating, and good from the freezer.
I am celebrating the beginning of garlicky everything (garlic scapes blended up with olive oil, and applied liberally to… well, everything!).
I love Sugar Anns! I’m growing them and two other varieties of edible-pod peas this year, but Sugar Ann is by far my favorite. I find that they are even more delicious when you let them get a lot fatter than the ones in the photo. When they’re nice and round, they are incredibly sweet and crisp!
As an avid gardener it is my believe that nothing(NOTHING) beats peas picked fresh from the garden. Often a time I have gone out to pick some for the dinner table only to return with an empty bowl and a full belly….lol.
Better to eat them fresh off the plant when they are young and sweet then to let them over ripen and become woody.
garden peas are just about my favorite thing ever… they always taste 1,000 times better than store bought.
Growing snowpeas this year. I started them indoors and took a risk (which paid off) by putting them in the ground early. They are now utterly gorgeous and just starting to produce.
I grew Sugar Ann this year too. They just kept growing and growing and growing, and are now nearly 4 feet tall (and did require staking as they toppled over and buried the lettuce and parsley next to them).
I can’t decide if the seed package was mislabeled; there’s so much delicious, nutritious compost in the bed; all the extra rain this year spurred them on more than usual; or if I planted them a little too close together so they had to reach up higher than normal to get the sun.
Whichever it is, they are utterly delicious!