Filed under: Cool Weather Bed, Gardening, Harvest | Tags: pacific northwest gardening, peas, snow peas
I had gotten busy and not harvested snow peas for only one day. I was shocked when during my morning garden walk I noticed that the peas had an abundant crop ready for picking. I started picking and a few minutes later had over a pound of peas. Some of them were young and fresh. Others were quite frankly getting a bit past their prime; a little old and seedy as if they were ready to fall off the vine and become new pea plants. That’s not optimal eating for a pea pod per me. I like them fresh off the vine in the garden. I guess I’m a complete ageist when it comes to peas.
Still this harvest was so abundant, I’m going to start abiding the recommendation on the seed package which is “harvest daily”. Also, I won’t start keeping garden peas fresh in the refrigerator quite as long. If we don’t eat the pound I picked yesterday by the next time I harvest or at least within the next few days, I will freeze at least half of them. I would rather have frozen peas to throw into a winter stew than watch the peas I have grown become fuzzy with fungis from having been in the fridge too long.
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