Snow Peas are officially our best vegie so far this season! They are honestly growing like weeds! In this picture you can see a photo of the snow peas growing over an arch exactly one month ago….and now they are completely covering the whole arch. And they just keep on producing!
The picture I’ve taken labelled ‘December’, just shows a little bit of the growth on top of the arch and there are hundreds of snow peas all hanging there ready to be picked. They grow within a couple of days!
We have a lot of friends that keep telling us how hard they are to grow, but I have to say that they are the easiest in my opinion. And that’s largely because they require virtually no maintenance and you don’t even really need fertilise them. I think people have issues with this because they don’t plant them out early enough. I plant mine out late winter/early spring – before normal garden peas…
So of course snow peas were on the menu tonight. In fact, I used a whole host of vegies from our garden in a delicious pasta I’m calling ‘Pasta Primavera’ (or ‘Spring Pasta’…even thought it’s now summer!) The following things from the garden made it into the pasta: snow peas, broccoli, chilli, leeks, thyme, Italian flat leaf parsley, rocket and garlic (picked my first bulb as I was a bit impatient). A dash of wine, ham, olive oil, butter and parmesan….and this was a sensational dish!
We’re meeting with some friends tomorrow, so I think I might have to give everyone a bag of snow peas…we have far too many to eat!
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