Garden Peas
This soup is known in france as potage saint germain a name that comes from a suburb of paris where peas used to be cultivated in market gardens.
Garden peas. They need a loamy humus rich soil with a ph from 5 5 7 0. Start your garden beds in the fall. Wonderful use for spring garden vegetables.
Cover with an inch of soil in the spring. Simply broadcast the seed in the row allowing the seeds to fall as they may some even touching. Sure you can pick up a pack of green peas from the freezer section anytime and you totally should they re super convenient when you need a quick touch of green or an ice pack in a pinch but they can t hold a candle to the sweet vibrant english peas that will be showing up at your local farmers markets soon if they haven t already.
Peas grown close together shade out weeds keep the soil cool increase yields and make the most efficient use of garden space. They have been part of the human diet for hundreds of years and are consumed. Peas are the perfect vegetable to grow in container gardens.
How to plant green peas. Two inches in the summer for your fall crop. The pea is most commonly the small spherical seed or the seed pod of the pod fruit pisum sativum each pod contains several peas which can be green or yellow.
Snow peas pisum sativum var. Botanically pea pods are fruit since they contain seeds and develop from the ovary of a pea flower. English peas aka shelling peas pisum sativum ssp.
Sativum produce inedible pods from which large edible peas are harvested. The name is also used to describe other edible seeds from the fabaceae such as the pigeon pea cajanus cajan the cowpea vigna. Peas probably have originated in the sub himalayan plains of northwest india.