Trellised Peas
We’re having a bountiful pea harvest this year. The trellising system I’ve employed for the past few years works very well in allowing the peas to climb tall. The picture above, taken a few weeks ago shows, from left to right, snow peas, capucijner soup peas and two stands of sugar peas.
Both varieties of sugar peas are types where you can eat the whole pod, or let them grow larger to eat the peas inside. We usually forgo any attempt to get loose peas and we’ve been eating the whole pod. They taste great and you get more for your money. You just have to pick them before the pod starts to get stringy and tough.
Capucijner Peas
The capucijner peas could be eaten as a fresh pea, but that would be wasting the best soup pea we’ve come across. We’ve been growing capucijners with our own saved seed for over twenty years. As you can see in the top picture, they are exceptionally vigorous. We pick the pods when they are nearly dry. If allowed to completely dry on the vine, the pods split and peas start to fall out onto the ground.
The trellis system we use is great in that it puts the peas right up at eye level for harvesting and it makes it easy to reach in to get all the peas. Here’s an old post that shows how It’s done.
Judy posted some of the ways she is using up our great pea harvest. You can read about them here