{"id":792,"date":"2011-07-13T09:00:15","date_gmt":"2011-07-13T16:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/karin.zmonkey.org\/?p=792"},"modified":"2011-07-11T10:45:32","modified_gmt":"2011-07-11T17:45:32","slug":"peas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/karin.zmonkey.org\/?p=792","title":{"rendered":"Peas"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Peas growing in my garden<\/p><\/div>\n

I have the fondest memories of peas.\u00a0 My mom always grew peas in her garden and I remember sitting on the porch with my mom on a cool summer night.\u00a0 My mom would have a bag full of peas and a bowl.\u00a0 We would just sit there talking and opening up peas and, of course, eating them.<\/p>\n

I love to eat fresh garden peas.\u00a0 In previous years we grew a Lincoln pole pea and didn’t have very much success.\u00a0 We would only grow enough for a handful and the kids always ate them before I could do anything with them.\u00a0 This year we tried a new variety called Little Marvel.\u00a0 This is a bush pea.\u00a0 So far we have a lot more peas than we ever had.\u00a0 I have enough to feed the whole family peas, as a side, dish for dinner (although I think they like them better raw).\u00a0 Corey said that he didn’t think he planted enough last year.\u00a0 He really packed the seeds in together this year.\u00a0 Along with a better watering schedule the peas have really taken off. \u00a0 I think next year I’m going to grow at least twice as many so I can have some to freeze.<\/p>\n

Pole verses the bush pea.\u00a0 On the package of the Little Marvels it said that there was no need to stake the plants.\u00a0 Pole peas grow tall vertically and will fall over if not staked.\u00a0 When I bought the Little Marvels (a bush pea) I was under the impression that we didn’t have to stake them.\u00a0 They did pretty well until the pods started to form and now they have fallen onto themselves and have become a tangled mess.\u00a0 I think that maybe next time we will set up a trellis along side them so they have something to attach themselves to and maybe stay standing.\u00a0 Picking the peas can be a back breaking job.\u00a0 It is better if you have somewhere you can sit or kneel.\u00a0 I, however, had to bend over for about 15 minutes to pick all the peas.\u00a0 When I finally stood up my back was very stiff.\u00a0 Over all I’m pretty satisfied with the results.<\/p>\n

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Freshly picked<\/p><\/div>\n

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Carrying on the tradition<\/p><\/div>\n

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Sophia and her peas<\/p><\/div>\n

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What we have so far<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I have the fondest memories of peas.\u00a0 My mom always grew peas in her garden and I remember sitting on the porch with my mom on a cool summer night.\u00a0 My mom would have a bag full of peas and a bowl.\u00a0 We would just sit there talking and opening up peas and, of course, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49,38,58,16],"tags":[29,3,59,25,17,27],"class_list":["post-792","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family","category-garden","category-health","category-projects","tag-dinner","tag-family","tag-garden","tag-health","tag-project","tag-vegetables"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/karin.zmonkey.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/792","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/karin.zmonkey.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/karin.zmonkey.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karin.zmonkey.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karin.zmonkey.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=792"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/karin.zmonkey.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/792\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":801,"href":"https:\/\/karin.zmonkey.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/792\/revisions\/801"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/karin.zmonkey.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karin.zmonkey.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karin.zmonkey.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}