#peas as a #growYouOwn #gardening crop

Until recently, never bothered much with peas, bcs
[1] they used to play havoc with my digestion
[2] they're such niggly things to harvest
[3] niggly things to pod
[4] untidy, sprawling things in their bed.

But since discovering..
[1] some seed
[2] how they managed themselves if growing in an unmanaged area,
[3] ways of eating them that are perfectly digestible,
[4] they're very good source of protein, enough so to be in powder form on "health-food" and "bodybuilding" shelves, and hence
[5] satisfying in the same way as heavier protein
... I've been really enjoying growing them!

The first autumn sowing in the "pea cascade" ⬆️ post is now fizzling-out, due to it being too hot/dry up there, while an April-ish sowing I did is now producing well in a cooler spot with shading near a sprinkler

but picking and podding a useful-protein size portion ~200g - is optimistically taking about 20 minutes.

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Anyone got neat solutions to either of these time-consuming problems for one with too much to do?
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