Soup Pea recommendation and recipe

[keen101 (Biolumo / Andrew B.)]

Yeah, the weather has been odd. A stray bean from last year has already germinated and is growing great (even survived some brief cold and sleet). I think in a few days i might plant my watermelon seeds, beans, sunflowers, and amaranth too. My first peas are just starting to come up now. I only planted half of each variety, and in a few days i plan to plant the other half. I planned on this staggering method in hopes that some of the late planted ones will be flowering at the same time as the first planted Biskopens ones (in hopes that i can cross biskopens to any early flowering type).

The two pea varieties that have germinated first are labeled as Shiraz, and another (unlabeled) which i believe is one of the umbellatum types (if so i can identify it later based on the shape and color of the seeds). It's interesting that Shiraz is the first to grow.

[Joseph Lofthouse]

I planted landrace shelling peas much later than is typical last spring. 5% of them survived and thrived during the summer heat, and gave an out-of-season pea crop that tasted great. Unfortunately, I didn't save any seeds. I may repeat the experiment again in a few years when I have lots of F2 genetics running through my pea patch. Out of season crops are a wonder to behold: Especially if I am the only one taking them to market!!!

[raymondo]

I've got a couple of large seeded shellies that I want to bulk up to trial as soup peas - Onward and Télévision, a French pea, are two of them. There might be others. I'll have to sift through my seeds to see. I'm curious to see how they go.