Peas
By Lou Paun
Peas are the small, round green beans that grow inside the pod of the vine Pisum sativum. In some varieties, the pod is edible as well as the pea.
Peas Please - Growing Garden Fresh Peas
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Peas are best suited for cooler temperate climates in locations with good sun and protection from the wind. Like most other vegetables, garden fresh peas are the most flavorful. Use a trellis or cage for support.
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Peas
Varieties of small round legumes that are typically classified as fresh, field or pod peas. The fresh pea is a small, round green vegetable, which is grown in a pod and is generally harvested in the early summer.
Sweet Peas
Sweet peas are not fussy plants and quite easy to grow. It is not hard to grow sweet peas in the garden, however, careful preparation and attention will permit the best and fastest growth.
Sweet Peas
Sweet peas belong to the group of vines that grow by sending out coiled tendrils. Because of this, sweet peas cannot grow up anything very large and are not able to use a tree for support.
Sweet peas (Lathyrus odoratus)
Winning qualities: Their unparalleled fragrance. 'The perfume industry has yet to duplicate it naturally,' says Kolla.
Garden Peas
Tender, succulent pea pods and fresh garden Peas command top market prices, but are easy to grow an mature rapidly during cool weather in spring and fall. Peas are classified into three categories.
Garden Peas
Prepared by Frances R. Knight, Clemson Extension Master Gardener, and S. Cory Tanner, Horticultural Extension Agent, Greenville County, Clemson University Cooperative Extension, Clemson University, 2010.
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Sweet Peas are a hardy annual and thrive in cool weather. They can survive frosts, freezes, and a snow cover. That's how their cousin the vegetable "Snow peas" got their name.
Sweet peas (Lathyrus odoratus) are probably the most popular annual flower, being especially prized for their colour and scent. Smaller cultivars are available for hanging baskets and containers.
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Sweet Peas are often grown in clumps up tall twiggy pea sticks in the flower border. On other occasions they are grown on the cordon system up single bamboos and are dis-shooted carefully. They may easily grow to 2.
Southern peas made their way to our shores in 1675 from Jamaica, where they had been introduced by slave traders from Africa. The pea probably originated in India or southern Asia.
Care and Cultivation Butterfly Peas
Clitoria ternatea
This fast growing climber is a fairly common tender perennial species that produces two inch, pinkish blue flowers in mid to late Summer.
Grow 'Matucana' and all sweet peas by soaking the seeds at least overnight, then sowing them directly into a sunny spot in the garden in early spring as soon as soil can be worked.
As a cut flower, Sweet peas only last about 3 days in water. Cut flowers when 2 or 3 flowers are showing color and stems are about twelve inches long.
As I trial the many varieties of sweet peas, I will add them to the gallery below.
Desert Peas usually are sprawling semiperennial to perennial semi-woody sub shrubs from arid areas in Australia and South Africa.
Peas are an annual plant.
An annual plant is a plant that usually germinates, flowers, and dies in a year or season. True annuals will only live longer than a year if they are prevented from setting seed.
Sweet peas planted now begin to bloom in March, continue into May.
Gloxinia seeds planted now will give bloom in late spring and through most of the summer.
Field peas or soup peas, are grown for the dried seeds which are used in soups and stews as well as for livestock fodder and as a cover crop. These are var. arvense, and there are many old heirloom cultivars.
Pigeon peas are popular food in developing tropical countries. Nutritious and wholesome, the green seeds (and pods) serve as vegetable.
Leaves are trifoliate and spirally arranged on the stem.
I start my peas by putting them in a damp container. When I see the root starting to grow I know which peas are viable and discard those which aren't.
Fragrant Sweet Peas Plant Profile
From heirloom cottage gardens to today's modern landscapes, the twining sweet pea adds colorful fragrance to any home garden space.
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Because shelling peas (the kind you remove from the pod before eating) were derived from varieties that thrived in England, they are sometimes called "English peas.
Lathyrus spp, Sweet Peas
japonicus, Beach Pea
ochroleucus, Pale Pea
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It is one of the earliest maturing peas. The 10 foot long, bushy vines produce white flowers and 2 1/2 inch pods with 3 shelling peas each. However, each plant will not produce many pods. Peas are hardy, weak-stemmed, climbing annuals.
The pod, too, of the varieties known as sugar peas, can be eaten, and the whole plant is grown for forage; the vines of garden varieties are also used for feeding stock. In New England many gardeners plant them on Apr.
They taste somewhat like peas. They are used like broccoli[183]. Flowers and young flower buds - cooked. Used as a flavouring and a thickener in soups etc[55, 102]. The flower clusters can be boiled down to make a sugary syrup[2, 85].
Precise classification of this and similar peas is quite difficult. According to Intermountain flora: "a settled taxonomy for the complex series of small-flowered mountain [Peas]...
Trifolium pratense (Leguminosae) - This relative of peas and beans is originally from Europe. In the U.S.A. it is farmed as a food for livestock and to add nitrogen to the soil, but in many cultures (including China) humans also enjoy eating it.
It's too bad its young late summer seedpods or ripe autumn peas aren't especially edible since they're as plentiful as that other omnipresent invader with a seemingly limitless spread, old English blackberries.
Occurs exclusively in heathland, generally dominated by Violet Kunzea (Kunzea parvifolia), Common Fringe-myrtle (Calytrix tetragonal) and parrot-peas (Dillwynia spp.).
Grows on very shallow soils or within mosses on sandstone conglomerate shelves.
A low-growing ground cover plant with gorgeous maroon flowers a bit like sweet-peas. These are followed by a prolific crop of unusual winged pods which should be picked young at about 2.
The fresh sprigs of mint are used to flavour green peas and also new potatoes, being boiled with them, and the powdered, dried leaves are used with pea soup and also in seasonings.
The flowers have a perfume rather like that of sweet peas. Sometimes, flat seed pods follow, though they can look a bit messy when they drop on the ground.
They are the dominant type of plant today; there are over 250,000 species, including grasses, peas, etc. Their flowers are used in reproduction.
The brown seeds are round like peas and are found in pods. The pods are woody, smooth and pendulous, with a light green color. They will burst open while still on the tree after the leaves have fallen.
Over time the Peas have adapted to fit many different niches, from lowly clovers on the ground to stately trees that today shade city sidewalks. Families this large often have subgroupings called subfamilies and tribes. It works like this: ...
Beach pea pods resemble those of garden peas -- but note the beach pea is NOT edible.
lù dōu shù dòu (dou4) 荳 (1. beans, peas 2. bean-shaped)
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Beans can be eaten ripe, or pods can be picked and cooked, much like peas. Pods generally mature in 120+ days from seed. Plants are usually 2-4ft tall, and produce many ornamental white-purple flowers.
My love for baptisias began many years ago, but it was in 1994 that I went off the proverbial deep end for this group of glorified peas.
A slow-growing, evergreen shrub native to eastern North America, it produces greenish white, inconspicuous flowers in spring, followed by jet black drupes the size of peas. The fruit can persist until the next spring unless eaten by birds.
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Poisonous Be aware that the seeds of Wisteria are poisonous - certainly causing upset stomach if ingested. Wisteria is the same family as Laburnum - Leguminosae. So many of this family's seeds are poisonous. (Except our edible beans and peas ...
The flowers are large (an inch or more wide), and are clustered like those of sweet-peas. They contrast beautifully with the plant's bright green foliage.
More than just an emergency food, this species has the potential to become a staple crop in areas with continental climates. The young pods can be eaten cooked and used as a vegetable. Additionally, the yellow flowers which have a taste like peas, ...
Other campus members of the subfamily include Bauhinia, Cassia, Cercis, Gleditsia, and Parkinsonia. It would be instructive to work out the higher classification of the many other campus peas (genera listed in the family index) from field ...
 See also: Green, May, Sweet pea, Orange, Varieties
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