Peas
There is an amazing quality vegetables have to mature unnoticed right under your nose until one morning you look closer to see them fully grown. If you’ll look at the pictures from last week you can see the delicate white blossoms that these pods used to be.
Sow peas at two week intervals to keep a fresh harvest available through the summer, but keep in mind that peas don’t like the heat. They will go from seed to harvest really fast, offering you fresh and tender fruit before the end of June. If temperatures don’t go to extremes, they will keep steadily yielding through the summer, otherwise they take a break and catch up with you when the heat subsides in September and October.
I haven’t grown peas before, so I didn’t expect to see every single flower turn to a hefty pod. I couldn’t tell you if these frosty peas are better than other varieties, or if this is just the way this plant behaves. I think it is time for harvest, they don’t seem to be growing any bigger, but maybe it’s me, like children I have no patience. I planted a fresh bunch upon seeing the little pea pods hang in clusters on the vine.
It is hot already in the garden, but vegetables thrive on the intense energy of the sun, their flavors get stronger, their colors brighter, it feels as if they are waiting for the hundred degree heat to show off at their finest.
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