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Sugar Peas
Topic Started: Apr 30 2018, 04:51 PM (109 Views)
Jolly
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I've never grown them before, but my in-laws have, so this year I did a half-row of about 50 feet as an experiment. Deer wiped out about a third, the rest are making now.

Fresh sugar peas out of the garden are another one of those vegetables that are just much better than what is found at the store.

The wife cooked a mess of them for supper, along with half a cabbage head from the garden and some sausage jambalaya.

We bees eatin' good in the neighborhood.😋😋😋
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brenda
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Fresh sugar peas are one of nature's wonders. We could have a big discussion about whether they beat sweet corn for being delicious, but I think they're both very high on the list of great garden foods.
“Weeds are flowers, too, once you get to know them.”
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Mikhailoh
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I will look for some here when the season comes around.
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Jolly
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Mikhailoh
May 1 2018, 03:00 AM
I will look for some here when the season comes around.
Foodie that you are, you would benefit from a raised bed garden.

Shame you let your child labor get too old, before contemplating the idea. ;)
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Mikhailoh
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Fair point, that.

I have thought of a raised be garden here and may yet do do.
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Jolly
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brenda
Apr 30 2018, 08:05 PM
Fresh sugar peas are one of nature's wonders. We could have a big discussion about whether they beat sweet corn for being delicious, but I think they're both very high on the list of great garden foods.
I've got four 100' rows of Funk's G90 about six inches high. I normally plant Merit, but you couldn't find the seed around here this year. The G90 will normally out produce Merit, but Merit has a lot less silks, making it much easier to clean.

I've thought about going back to the future and planting Bantam. It's an heirloom and breeds true. I've gotten where I save a lot more of my seed than I used to, since the price has gotten so high. Makes economic sense to plant heirlooms and you can self select the plants which produce best. The Funk seed this year costs me $15 for just those four rows.
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Jolly
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Mikhailoh
May 1 2018, 04:03 AM
Fair point, that.

I have thought of a raised be garden here and may yet do do.
Buy this:

https://www.amazon.com/All-Square-Foot-Gardening-Revolutionary/dp/1591865484/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1525176613&sr=8-1&keywords=square+foot+gardening

I think you can vary his soil mixture a bit (I use cotton gin mulch), but his system works. He originally created his system to try to help feed poor people in developing countries, that did not have access to land and only had hand tools.

My FIL and MIL had huge gardens, but they are now in their 80's. I built them a 16'x4' bed this spring, mixed cotton gin trash and their soil together, and they piddle with their little garden almost every day. She's got a half dozen tomatoes, a couple of bell peppers, a dozen bush snap beans, cucumber and squash plants in a couple of the corners, along with a couple of other things. That won't make enough for them to can, as they usually do, but once it starts producing, will let them do quite a bit of fresh eating. And, as things quit producing, you pull up the plants, toss them in the compost pile and plant something new.

As usual, their stuff looks better than mine. :lol2:

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