13 March 2007
I’ll have a pea please, Bob.
Among the lengthy list of vegetables that I have yet to grow successfully, peas are possibly my biggest regret. Surely nothing fits better with the idea of growing your own than the picture of someone smugly picking a few pods, popping them open there and then and snaffling the sweet, ripe peas while they’re fresher than a nun’s fart. Easy to grow, easy to harvest, easy to cook and easy to store, it’s difficult to understand why I haven’t got around to growing them yet.
I had intended to pop my cherry, so to speak, by using the now well-tried (by everyone else) gutter method, but we never got round to getting any gutter. So, we have earmarked a bed, and I sowed my first double row of Markana in situ yesterday. The resident mice have been kind and eaten only one or two of the broad beans I sowed so I am hoping that they will be similarly considerate with the peas.
Assuming I am successful, this leaves only one pea controversy unresolved - to scoop (the only method in polite company) or to squash (heaven forfend) ? How do you eat yours?
Filed under: Sowings — Clare @ 11:51 am
Scoop or sqaush - neither! I stab!
(14.03.07 @ 6:40 am)
You’re assuming they ever make it off the plot and aren’t just eaten straight from the plant. Or if they do make it as far as the kitchen, that any of them will survive the shelling process. I once set my young son to shelling peas. I came back to find a big pile of empty pods and a stuffed four-year-old who didn’t now want any dinner. No peas, though.
(14.03.07 @ 1:24 pm)
I’m a bit of a stabber too. Squashing makes them look too much like flattened caterpillars, I feel.
(14.03.07 @ 2:33 pm)
Well we only got one pod last lear and I kind of poured the peas straight from pod into mouth.
(14.03.07 @ 3:22 pm)
Oh dear - stabbers ahoy! Looks like I’m a lone scooper.
(15.03.07 @ 10:34 am)