Nothing wrong with planting in ground if you have the room. I don't have the room so I plant them on pots. Easy to do in pots also. The pots are 15 and 17 inch ones. I just fill with potting mix I bought at the local nursery. I don't fertilize either.

So fill the pots almost up to where you need the mix. Sprinkle pea seeds around rather thickly and then top off with an inch of mix. Water in. Easy.

>> Sprinkle pea seeds around rather thickly

Hmm! With Snow Peas I spread them apart a few inches, and no more than a double row. They still grow thickly together. I was planning to devote all my big pots to tomatoes, but you're tempting me.

peas in pots sprouting

I can almost taste them now!

Lots of growing before that happens. But I was lots more organised with the peas this year getting them in nice and early. I remember last spring I was late getting my peas planted. But then last year the weather was so warm so early that spring was really mixed up.

I absolutely love the taste of peas fresh from the garden.

I know what you mean about last year, it was about a month early. I was happy because I really didn't have time to get my peas planted, but with the cooler spring I don't think it was too late. I planted a bit more lettuce also.

My in ground peas that I planted March 21 are finially prouting. Geez that took a long time. The ones in pots, planted later are way ahead. Oh, and my inion sets are sprouting green tops.

My cover crop seeds are mostly sprouted too. The crimson clover is doing nicely but the hairy vetch is just started and the squirrels have made a mess of it by digging.

I am so organised this year. I just had straw delivered. 6 bales worth. And at the end of the week my landscape guy that does my projects and cuts my grass is going to deliver me 2 yards of compost for the tomato garden area. As soon as the tomatoes go in the straw mulch needs to be applied so as to keep soil deseases from splashing on the leaves. But before the tomatoes can be planted the compost needs to go on the beds.

They love the compost and should grow like weeds. Well, they always grow like weeds!

You are organized! Great job!

I am going to have more tomato plants than ever before this year. I enlarged all my tomato areas last fall getting ready for spring this year. I do so love to grow tomatoes. Love to eat them also.

Then do you make sauce or freeze or can them?

This year we have 22 varieties. When we have some left from market we just throw them all together and get the best tasting sauce ever!

Some of my tomatoes are getting ready to blossom already. This coming Saturday is our first market day of the year and I will sell plants there.

I make sauce and freeze it. But I do eat a lot, a lot of tomatoes come summer. And I give bags away to all my friends and neighbors. I am very popular during tomato season ha-ha.

It is way too early to put out tomato sets here yet but I want to be ready for when it is warm enough at the very beginning of May.

I'll be setting out tomato plants this week.

I just plowed under the clover so I have to rake yet and I have company coming so I probably won't get mine out until next week.

I just had to admire my peas today! Yes, I know that makes me easy to please. But the potted peas are doing so well. Even the inground ones have sprouted. And those in the pots are fantastuc. The snow peas especially shooting up but then I think they will be taller vines than the snap varuety Sugar Lace II that I have.

Sorted out all my tomato cages so I will be ready for tomato growing season.

I love looking at all of the veggies coming up too Rita - It's like Christmas

I have to laugh at myself but it's true. I go admire my plants. Now its normal to admire my flowers (and I have plenty of those) but I go admire my veggies growing also.

I'm like a kid when I plant a seed, watch it germinate, and then grow up and give me food - WOW!

I also gaze fondly at every stage of growth. I think I got that from Dad - we had a division of labor. He drove several hours to and from work each day, and worked hard.

I dug the soil, managed the compost heap, mowed the lawn, watered and did the less-skilled weeding.

Mom did the actual 'gardening' - anything that involved skill.

Then when Dad got home, he would take his martini and stroll across the back yard, gazing upon the garden like the Lord of the Manor, and called it good.

Now I have my own garden, so I have to learn the middle part: anything involving skill or knowledge.
.
But I seem to have inherited the "Lord of the Manor" fond gaze.