Mastodawn

Taking inspiration from self-sown specimens, I started these snap-peas -- 3rd generation saved, unknown var. -- in early autumn, in situ, amid deep crushed sweetcorn debris, no clearing. The only thing cleared was the wire pig/badger fence when the peas started to go UP it. Whereas I want them to form a low-maintenance, easy-pick CASCADE down towards the path below the terrace. As they did themselves from a compost heap 2 years ago nearby.

Last year, I started them in pots and transplanted them out about now, fraction of the size, and within a few weeks all eaten by slugs. Lesson learned. Their stems are too woody now, and they did their establishment while too cold for slugs.
#peas #growYourOwn

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Solar🌄Garden 4d ago

#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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kelleynnn

@wavesculptor There are pea shelling machines that work kind of like old grinders, you clamp them to the table and turn the crank. I've never tried one.