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| Sugar snap peas, lettuce, 'Buttercrunch, and 'Cimarron' sown about 2 1/2 weeks ago in the large pot on my deck. They had germinated before the last snow and night when temperatures reached 12 degrees (F). Still looking good! |
Here in the United States, we must be pea snobs. We tend to eat peas shelled and steamed (or boiled). Regardless, when we eat peas we are usually talking about eating the immature seeds, not the fresh shots or tender pods. We do this not only with peas, but a host of other garden vegetables. We eat the beets, but tend to forego the beet tops, we eat the lettuce when it is mature. We wait to eat the florets of broccoli and ignore the leaves. Same for immature cabbage before it has formed a head, we decline to snip off a few tasty green, or red leaves to add an extra peppery crunch to our spring salads.
Once you start growing your own salad plots you begin to understand how much food we waste, even as gardeners.
