Growing and Harvesting Peas
Oh, dear sugar snap peas! My dear, dear sugar snaps. In all the time I've been growing food in our suburban farm days (approximately 10 years now!), I have to say that snap peas have been one of the most successful plants I've grown. I started growing and harvesting peas when we purchased a home with a huge backyard. That was about 10 years ago. We ordered some seeds from one of our favorite heirloom seed companies, Baker Creek . I bought sugar snap seeds one time, and I've never had to buy them again. Honestly, I never have planted many sugar snaps. I usually put about 12-20 snap pea seeds in the ground, and that is more than enough. My daughter loves to eat them pod and all early harvest, snow pea style. Up until this year, I have only harvested peas early as snow peas, because she is the main consumer. I've typically let the rest grow and dry on the plant, so I can harvest them as next years sugar snap seeds. And...