Question: What is a good recipe for wando peas? Answer: Wando peas are a variety of shelling peas (peas that you must remove from the shell before eating). You can use them as you would in any recipe calling for peas. I think to enjoy their fresh flavor it’s best to just keep it simple. …
Tag Archive: Wando Peas
Jul
08
Harvesting Peas – Wando at 10 Weeks
Click here to read all my posts on wando peas. At 10 weeks since planting my wando peas, the harvest is at it’s peak. There are peas of plenty to harvest. Each pea pod that is fully grown has about 7 peas, which is more than I had with the burpeeana early variety I planted …
Jul
08
Harvesting Peas – Wando at 9 Weeks
Click here to read all my posts on wando peas. Nine weeks after planting my wando peas, they were ready to begin harvesting. At this point, there were only a few pods that were fully ripe. If you look towards the center of the picture (click on it to enlarge) you will see some pods …
Jul
08
Growing Peas – Wando Flowering at 8 Weeks
Click here to read all my posts on wando peas. At the eight week point of growing my wando peas, the flowering has begun. It’s always exciting when the flowers first begin appearing on any plant. Wando peas have nice white flowers that tend to form towards the tops of the plants. Within about 2 …
Jul
08
Growing Peas – Wando at 7 Weeks
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
Growing Peas – Wando at 5 Weeks
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
Growing Peas – Wando at 4 Weeks
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
Growing Peas – Wando Sprouting at 2 Weeks
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
23
Planting Wando Peas (Shelling)
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 …
Welcome to my blog! My name is Eric. I live in Saline, Michigan with my wife (Donna) and two daughters, Hannah (3 1/2) 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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