Bedtime Snack

Photo taken 17 May 2013...Joan raiding the pea patch...yum! The pea plant are realy up to my shoulder if I grab on to tem and gently tug them upwards. So may peas! This is the first time I have had such amazingly high peas. this is the first time I planted them is this partiular bed and the first time I raked in some newly purchased steer manure (and not that much even) in the soil before I planted them.
Let me not forget to give a hearty Thank You to Shayla for helping to plant these peas back in February.

Pea Report #4

It is pea picking time! All of a sudden there are so many!!!! These were picked May 6 or 7 ! Cosete loves looking for the peas in all the gren...look how much she picked!

Here she is pointing to a pea pod. 2 kinds were planted: sugar snap and snow. Too bad I did not label the rows. they all taste delicious, though!

Cosette insisted on one more photo!

Mmmmm..fresh picked snow peas with Ranch dip!

Pea Report #3

These pictures were taken May 1st or maybe a few days before. The pea patch has started to produce peas all of a sudden it seems!

Pea Report #2

About a week days later...Maybe April 25 ...the peas are up to my hips in height, and there are lots of white flowers. I have not noticed any bees yet...and was concerned: Would there be some peas to pollinate my peas? here I am with Cosette who was enjoying this whole experience of watching and waiting for some peas to grow.

Here you can see a lot of white blossoms interspersed among the leaves. I love the pea plant!

A blossom...

My Peas-Report #1

I planted my peas on Presidents Day like I learned to do on the previous posts' video. It was 18 February 2013. That night we had reports that it would snow. I got out some old vinyl tablecloths with the flannel backing and covered my 4 rows of newly planted peas. Luckily, they did not freeze even though the temperature got quite cold and yes, it did snow.in the morning, snow was covering the tablecloths I had spread out. As you can see, these seeds grew quite well. I bought them at Winco. The following 3 pictures were taken on the same day in the middle of April....about April 16-18. So 2 months after planting.

I get such a kick out of the tendrils that form on the pea plant. the pea plant is most fascinating...the way the leaves unfurl and they way the tendrills garb on to anything in reach and start spiraling around it. Here is a close up. I was waiting and waiting for some blossoms to appear.

That day I did find tthe very first peas blossom! Here it is , not quite open.

Time for Planting Peas

Here is a great video of a gal planting peas...

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