I have to confess that I really did not enjoy, man most vegetables as a kid.

Which ones that I really enjoy?

Carrots that weren't cooked, if the carrot was cooked, I would not eat it.

Lettice, I guess, who doesn't really like lettuce? It's sort of a basic one. But peas for a while I also didn't like. And I think part of this is just the way in which stuff was

prepared as a kid in the 90s a lot of it was either steamed or boiled and to me

that just wasn't the texture I was looking for in a vegetable.

And peas were one of those that I really wasn't a huge fan of unless I went to a Chinese

restaurant and ate these snow peas that had this beautiful sort of garlicky sauce around them.

It was really, really tasty.

And now that I'm a gardener, I can just grow as many peas as I want and so can you.

And so today we're talking about growing snow peas in the garden.

It's a fantastic crop, even if you just grew it for some of the environmental benefits, the nitrogen fixation, etc, that it has for the soil because it's going to do something there even if you hate peas.

So there's not really a good excuse to not grow peas.

So let's talk specifically about the snow pea, which is pieceum, sativum, variety

macrocarbon. It's a vining plant, as we all know. Those tendrils, once they hit something solid,

they start to wrap, and that's how the peas will climb.

They are going to reach probably around 5 to 8 feet or so,

and you're going to want to plant them directly in the garden if you can manage it.

So certainly it's possible to start them indoors but I would say for better results.

You don't even have to transplant them and you completely avoid transplant shock if you direct sow them.

I personally do not soak my peas too often.

If I'm growing them as a tray of micro grains, I might do that, but if I am going to plant them

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