Yes, they are our favorite peas!

I am planting regular peas....not until next week...I'm still raking the garden & adding compost....I bring up the compost in a wheelie bin.....I have a very steep hill in back, takes forever to get back up the hill especially with the compost.....wish I had a golf cart!

Since golfers are in action now you could call a local course to see if they have any to sell. Now you have me thinking about it!

pirl said:Yes, they are our favorite peas!

Me too. I love Sugar Snap types. I have sometimes also planted the Snow Pea types but really I think the Sugar Snap types are the best.

When I was a child I remember my mother always planting and growing regular shelling peas. She even put sticks and then some string for them to grab on to. Now looking back I wonder of there just weren't sugar snaps back then to be had or my mom just didn't want to try them,.

My mom didn't grow any vegetables aside from a few tomatoes. She had roses, daffodils, hydrangeas, etc. but she was too busy raising the four of us and tending my dad's roofing business aside from cleaning/cooking/shopping and the weekly ironing on the mangle (I still have it but can't recall the last time I ironed anything!). My mom's was mahogany but this is what it looks like for anyone who never saw one.

My mom ironed everything also but she just used a regular iron. Sometimes I would do the ironing just to make it easier on her. But me for myself, I never iron anything.

My mom had a strawberry bed and also raspberries. Oh and she had gooseberry and red currant bushes. For veggies she grew a fair amount of tomatoes. Plus she grew cucumbers only she let them trail on the ground. Shelling peas. Then she grew herbs of parsley and dill. Plus she grew carrots.

Lots of things she didn't grow. Certainly not the favorites lots of people grow of eggplant and summer squashes. Peppers she didn't grow when I was young but later in life she planted a few pepper plants each year. But the staples to grow were tomatoes and then cucumbers.

Our next door neighbor grew mostly tomatoes but he was the first we knew of to grow yellow tomatoes and he'd share them with us. They were BIG hits with us.

We had red tomatoes. Big Boy. I grew up on Big Boy tomatoes and they are still favorites of mine. Nothing unusual, no yellows or even no cherry types back then.

A garden without a cherry tomato plant makes me sadface...

robertduval14 said:A garden without a cherry tomato plant makes me sadface...

Lots of cherry and grape types of tomatoes here now. Also Saladette sizes.

My mother was not a gardener....& she quit ironing when I turned 12...then it was my job, but my Dad's shirts were sent out to the laundry. My Grandma & Dad were the gardeners....my son is, too & his kids always help him plant......nice to see it passed on.....

Yes, it is!

I think growing veggies was instilled in me at a young age. Then I always wanted to do it. Nothing like growing your own.

I was happy this morning to see my basil is starting to sprout.

The trays of tomato seedlings outside today. Not in the sun today.





Inside is my simple set up with my two clamp on lights. The one is really a weird red light as you can all see in the second picture.

You have no shortage of tomatoes, Rita!

pirl said:You have no shortage of tomatoes, Rita!

I have an over abundance!

Today while I was outside I was thinking on where I will plant my beans. I just plant them in ground once the soil has warmed right where I intend to grow them. I think I will do some bush beans, I have a good spot and then I know I will do one tomato cage of pole beans. I call them my bean towers but they are really tomato cages.

Eeeehhh just a few tomatoes

How wonderful to see all those babies! What bush beans do you plant, Rita? I like Jade the best....

Way more than I have room for but I got carried away with myself. Plus I wasn't sure if they would all come up but they pretty much did all come up.

I will have too look at the seed packets but I have both a yellow variety and a green variety of bush beans. Then I have both yellow and burgandy pole beans. So I will have to choose which to plant.

Very hard for me to thin plants...I feel like a murderer!