Ain't nuthin' like fresh...
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Cut my last head of cabbage today, along with cleaning up my bed of sugar peas. Wife's uncle had given us some new potatoes and one of my buddies had given me a couple of packs of backstrap off a deer he'd shot just before Christmas.
So, supper was sugar peas and potatoes, butter cabbage and fried venison.
Wonder what all the poor folks had for supper...'cuz we ate high on the hog.
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I guess Sugar Snaps could have a different color flower, but the sugar peas I grow (Little Marvel, Arrow) have a white bloom that looks like this:
Those are first blooms. As time goes on, you see a lot more. If you're lucky, each bloom sets a pea pod. In 60 days, you ought to be looking at your first picking, at least.
I had to pull my peas early this year. I didn't stake them or put them on a net (that will never happen again) and with all the rain we've had, the vines started to rot at the bottom. Any pea pod in contact with the ground started to rot. So we pulled the whole thing out of the bed and picked the peas that way.
Lost at least a half-bushel of peas that were rotted. Lost anything that wasn't filled out and they were still blooming, even as they were dying. I got a bushel of good peas and they shelled out about a gallon and a quart.
They keep better canned, but we just blanched and froze these.
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I guess Sugar Snaps could have a different color flower, but the sugar peas I grow (Little Marvel, Arrow) have a white bloom that looks like this:
Those are first blooms. As time goes on, you see a lot more. If you're lucky, each bloom sets a pea pod. In 60 days, you ought to be looking at your first picking, at least.
I had to pull my peas early this year. I didn't stake them or put them on a net (that will never happen again) and with all the rain we've had, the vines started to rot at the bottom. Any pea pod in contact with the ground started to rot. So we pulled the whole thing out of the bed and picked the peas that way.
Lost at least a half-bushel of peas that were rotted. Lost anything that wasn't filled out and they were still blooming, even as they were dying. I got a bushel of good peas and they shelled out about a gallon and a quart.
They keep better canned, but we just blanched and froze these.
@Jolly said in Ain't nuthin' like fresh...:
I guess Sugar Snaps could have a different color flower, but the sugar peas I grow (Little Marvel, Arrow) have a white bloom that looks like this:
Those are first blooms. As time goes on, you see a lot more. If you're lucky, each bloom sets a pea pod. In 60 days, you ought to be looking at your first picking, at least.
I had to pull my peas early this year. I didn't stake them or put them on a net (that will never happen again) and with all the rain we've had, the vines started to rot at the bottom. Any pea pod in contact with the ground started to rot. So we pulled the whole thing out of the bed and picked the peas that way.
Lost at least a half-bushel of peas that were rotted. Lost anything that wasn't filled out and they were still blooming, even as they were dying. I got a bushel of good peas and they shelled out about a gallon and a quart.
They keep better canned, but we just blanched and froze these.
Still not bad at all! Something must have gone wrong with my plants. I'll wait it out, but I did see some rot at the bottom already. They may be at end of life. They are called Super Snappy, and I chose them because they are not supposed to need support.
