Sugar Snap Peas

Our sugar snap peas are blooming and putting on little pods filled with fat, sweet, peas.  This is the closest thing to candy in the garden.  You can snap them off the plant and pop them in your mouth raw.  I planted them on a trellis made out of some concrete reinforcement wire.  In addition to providing delicious peas for salads, stir fried dishes like fried rice, or just eating them raw, they provide some nice flowers for the garden.

Sugar Snap Peas

The nice looking flowers quickly become pods containing sweet peas that we pick. Many of them never make them inside as I eat them outside while plucking them off the vines.  The little tendrils that hold them to the trellis are a little fragile, so when you pick them, you really need two hands - one to pull them and one to support the plant so you don't pull the plant down.

Flowers and pods

One thing I need to work on, though, is some of the sweet peas have fallen off the trellis.  They became so heavy that the tendrils that hold them to the trellis did not hold and they fell - right on top of the garlic.  Our garlic is growing to the left in the photo below and you can see the piles of sugar snap peas that has covered them. Today I did my best to lift them up and off of the garlic.

Falling sugar snap peas

I liked the way that the sunlight filtering through this pod exposed the growing peas inside.  I count eight peas so far. 

Some of the peas have pink and white blooms and some of the peas have solid white blooms. Regardless the color, they produce peas that we all love to eat.  Sugar snap peas is a crop that even those in your family that aren't crazy about vegetables will love.

White flowers on sugar snap peas

Here is a pea pod that I popped open while harvesting this afternoon.  I quickly ate them up.

Like peas in a pod

As far the rest of them, I brought them inside and along with some fresh picked Red Romaine lettuce, they made a nice fresh salad.