The things in our garden that interest me the most are our raspberry plants, our watermelons, our pumpkins, and our peas. Of all of those, only the peas have come about. A few weeks ago, while out in the garden, I noticed that our peas were putting out shoots all over the place.
At that point, I bugged Paul to do what we should have done much much earlier -- put in stuff for them to climb and water them more often. This did some good, but we can clearly do much better next year. We only had two really great plants this year, and at least three plants just didn't make it beyond the early stages.
Today, for the first time, Paul and I (and my cousin and her children) reaped the benefits of Paul's hard work!
We picked pods off the plants and opened and snacked. Delicious and sweet and wonderful. I am thinking I might pick a few to open and saute in some butter and salt, but they barely need it! My cousin's youngest loved them and happily gobbled up all the contents of the pods I opened. When I asked her to smile for the picture, she could barely acknowledge me as she scrabbled for the peas in her mom's hands.
I'm going to mark the peas as a success this year. Check back later to see if I've got an update on our carrots which are looking promising! I've been itching to make Smitten Kitchen's Roasted Carrot and Avocado salad.
What are you guys up to this summer?
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Moving and settling into our new place. I figure it will take until at least the end of July to get set up, if not part of August. Not the most fun summer, sadly.
My knitting has definitely slowed down, but I doubt anyone can blame me when we've been breaking 100ยบ regularly and will do so from here on out. I've switched to small project knitting and ditched the sweaters for the time being.
I've never had fresh peas; I bet they were wonderful!
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