Let's hear it for peas

Started my day off feeding my chickens, checking on my seedlings in the greenhouse and made a stop in the garden and enjoyed a bunch  of peas for breakfast.  We love peas.  I planted peas in 4 of my 6 raised beds last fall.  We have been enjoying peas for a couple of week now.  They are so sweet and crisp and wonderful.  We never pick them and bring them in.  We all just go out and much away.  When family come over I invite them to take some, it's one of the few things I grow that everyone loves, and very little go to waist.  It's also adding nitrogen the way nature intended, and dense enough to keep the weeds out, you just can't ask for more.

I have 4lb of pea seeds for this year! I love peas until about the end of June when it's over an hour a day to pick them and will be for the next month. Last year I grew mainly low peas (Maro (marrowfat pea) Little Marvel, kelvedon wonder and ambassador) and one row of tall peas (Alderman) This year I'm going almost all tall, only a couple of very early rows of short peas. So much faster to pick and much much easier on the back! Alderman also has very large pods so there's less individual picks to do. The tall ones are more work to tie up I use 10ft tall fence posts and then run string in a florida weave type situation round the peas as they grow.
Also on the cards for this year is saving seeds from the Alderman since imports may be hard to get next year (Brexit and all that)


But.. my peas are not even planted yet, never mind being picked!

I have raised beds.  I put a fence post on each end and run a wire fence through the middle of the bed.  It's about 8' fall, the peas climb up it on there own.  When the peas are done I grow melon, cucumber, and beans up the fence trellis.  I'm a home gardener, so I grow on a much smaller scale.  I put bush peas in one bed, but they are so much harder to pick, and the verity I planted isn't as good as the tall ones.  Probably wont plant them next year.  I live in California, so if I don't plant my peas in fall, or late winter it's too hot to grow peas.  Saving seeds is a good idea, maybe I will try that too.  Thanks

They are the first Crop we can get by direct seeding is pea shoots. You can plant them before lest frost First plant I learned to collect seed from!

Here is our sugar snap peas( not the second the original!)
They were started inside until they were 4"-6" tall and than they were transplanted outside. They have been outside about 3 weeks now. The plants have sustained multiple night frosts. tough little plants