Bit bit said:
>> They'd wait until it cooled down to start growing even after they germinated. I don't think our winters were very cold at all, but they'd stall out and not set flowers/fruit, so maybe day length was a problem.
Maybe that was the problem. They were still waiting for weather to be cold enough when a windstorm blew them off their strings, and then an early frost hit, then a hard frost. THEN the average days cooled down enough to be congenial to peas.
I am probably still going to feel like a gardening beginner when I have a long, gray beard.