GIVE PEAS A CHANCE Flow ering pea plants.
Growing these legumes is easy-peasy as they’re relatively resistant to disease and insects and mature in about three months BY LIENEKE DENNIS
I HAD never eaten fresh peas in my life, only frozen, you know, McCain or Country Harvest. So, you can imagine my excitement when I picked my very first harvest of garden peas. As an amateur gardener, one of the most confusing choices is what to grow, and the array of choices displayed on the seed rack at the supermarket is overwhelming. We decided to start with peas. Fortunately for us,
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growing peas is easy-peasy. Is that where the expression comes from? The pea plant is hardy, fairly low-maintenance, not very susceptible (it seems) to insects and disease and you can plant them from mid-winter to spring. We lucked out on that, because we were just sowing seeds willy-nilly without really thinking the seasons through. We bought a Greenfeast Garden Peas seed pack; pea seeds are really easy
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to sow, as they’re quite large. Don’t do what we did when we started and sow 40 seeds in a block. We had no idea how tall they would grow, and that they send out delicate little tendrils that cling to anything, including each other. They very quickly outgrew the first little wigwam that we built for them, so we finally bought tall bamboo poles (they don’t have to be thick), strung
