Jul
08
Click here to read all my posts on wando peas. Above is a picture of my wando peas 7 weeks after planting. The plants are still growing well. They aren’t as tall as my super sugar snap peas that I planted at the same time, but that it what I expected as wando plants are …
Jul
02
Click here to read all my posts on wando peas. What a difference a week can make. From week 4 to week 5, the peas had a huge growth spurt, probably doubling in size. There are now tendrils shooting off from the plant. These will grab onto the netting and then the plant should really …
Jul
02
Click here to read all my posts on wando peas. Here is a picture of my wando shelling peas, 4 weeks after being planted. The growth has been pretty slow to that point. But as the plant gets bigger it should grow exponentially.
Jul
02
Click here to read all my posts on wando peas. You are looking at a picture of my wando shelling peas after being in the ground for 2 weeks. I had a little bit of a delay because some of my seeds were not planted deep enough and came to the surface. But I pushed …
Jun
25
To read all my posts on super sugar snap peas, click here. What a difference 2 weeks can make! At 7 weeks, the peas are higher than the stakes I put up for them. That is ok though because the plants are strong enough at this point and they are grabbing on to each other …
Jun
25
At the 5 week mark, the sugar snaps started to make some nice progress. The plants begun to climb the mesh netting that I placed up for them. This is the point where the growth really should start to take off. In a little over a month from this point is when the first harvest …
Jun
25
After 4 weeks in the ground, the progress on the sugar snaps has been a little slower than expected, but the plants were still in good shape. The plants starting shooting out tendrils at this point. It seems when the process starts if when the plants really take off. To read all my posts on …
Jun
25
After 2 weeks in the ground, my super sugar snap peas were coming up nicely. I had a problem at first because the seeds weren’t deep enough and when it rained, a lot of them came to the surface, so I had to push them back down. But that didn’t seem to stop them from …
Jun
23
This year I wanted to try out several different types of peas. I choose two shelling types: burpeeana-early and wando. I choose the wando peas, because they are said to withstand the heat better than other varieties. I planted to plant these peas later than my other ones, so they made the perfect choice. The …
Jun
23
One of the best treats from your garden are the peas, particularly the sugar snap variety (actually mine are super sugar snap peas). There is a sweetness that you get that you will never find down at the supermarket where you spend over $3 a pound for peas shipped from Guatemala. I planted mine at …
Welcome to my blog! My name is Eric. I live in Saline, Michigan with my wife (Donna) and two daughters, Hannah (4) and Autumn (1). I started this blog in October 2009 to share my culinary experiences from making my own food from scratch to what I find at farmer's markets and grocery stores.
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