Yesterday, my boyfriend was elbow deep in the pea vines when his parents arrived for a visit. When he said to his mom “hey mom, wanna pea?” she thought she was being offered a less than appropriate invitation to use the loo instead of a tasty snack and, a bit taken aback, she replied “I’ll let you know, thanks”. Surprised by her response he repeated “you don’t wanna pea?” as he held out a handful of freshly picked pods. At that point they both realized the humor in their misunderstanding and a good laugh was shared over the crunching of the peas.
It’s peak pea harvest in our garden now and it seems like we can’t pick them fast enough. I’m certainly not complaining – too many peas is never a bad thing.
Our Cascadia Bush Peas seem to produce an impressively larger crop than our other variety, Sugar Ann but Sugar Ann is the tastier of the two. I’ve been growing bush varieties in my reluctance to build a trellis but I have a feeling that will be changing soon since the climbing peas I’ve tried in a friend’s garden just taste better than any I’ve grown and I hate to admit it but, this keeps me up at night. My quest is to make each year’s garden better than the year before and now that calls for a trellis. Maybe for a fall crop.
