From: songbird@anthive.com   
      
   Pavel314 wrote:   
   ...   
   > We have two pea fences in the garden, 25' long and 4' high. My wife plants   
   the edible pod peas on one and green peas for shelling and freezing on the   
   other. She's gotten the first harvest already. The plants are pulled out and   
   thrown to the sheep to    
   eat. Another crop is planted and on the way.   
      
     with the heat we've been having i'm not   
   sure how much longer these plants will be going   
   but i can't imagine pulling them quickly or   
   soon.   
      
     i tend to let things like peas and beans go   
   as long as they have even a bit of green left   
   on them and as long as the pods are drying ok.   
   if it looks like the pods are drying and we're   
   in for a spell of rains then i'll scramble to   
   pick what i can and get them in box tops to   
   finish drying and shell out any that are   
   immature enough to be edible as shellies.   
      
     i planted a mix of peas that i had left over   
   and so these two rows of plants are mostly   
   intermixed.  some are edible as pods, shellies   
   and later when they've dried i just wish i   
   knew which they were.   
      
     the fun thing is that some of them are so   
   beautiful as plants and the flowers that i'm   
   hoping they will cross with some of the others   
   so i can get nicer colored flowers than the   
   white to pale yellow flowers the soup peas   
   get.  those would look pretty neat if they   
   had other colored flowers because they have a   
   growth habit where they have mostly tendrils   
   so they look like little fuzzy rows growing.   
   not that i expect this to happen, but i'll   
   look for it and encourage it.  never know   
   what Momma Nature might have in mind...  :)   
      
      
     songbird   
      
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