Days to Harvest: 55-70. One of the most popular home garden vegetables, peas grow best in cool weather. Young pea plants tolerate considerable cold, even light frost; so spring plantings are seldom harmed by cold weather. Shelled out fresh peas have a sweet, delicate flavour. May be frozen or canned.

Sowing: Select a sunny location and plant in very early spring as soon as soil can be worked. Cultivate soil and enrich with vegetable food and organic matter. Continue planting at 2 week intervals until mid-spring. Plant again late summer for late fall crop. Firm soil over seed. Provide support for tall growing varieties. Water by soaking soil to reduce danger of disease.

Comments: Pick when seeds have enlarged in the pod, while still bright green. Hold vine while picking to avoid tearing it. A good source of minerals and Vitamins A, B1, B2, Niacin and C.