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  • From: Harriet Allen <hattie_allen AT yahoo.com>
  • To: market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [Market-farming] Pea Tendrils
  • Date: Mon, 9 May 2011 18:47:21 -0700 (PDT)

I've had very good luck with pea tendrils using the tops couple of inches from the Austrian Winter Pea as it grows in the Spring.  They are amazingly tender and sweet.  I don't cut them as baby shots, but as tips of the maturing plants...As they flower, the flowers are also delicious...Then they quickly go downhill, but for a few weeks, they are fabulous.

I found Gonzo to be tough and inedible--but maybe they are designed to cut very very young...Of the three or four kinds I tried, the Austrian Winter Pea absolutely amazed me and it was something I was growing as a cover crop anyway.  As such, I usually had plenty of them and could cut pounds and pounds of them quickly.  I got a good price at a time of year when not much else was ready to eat.

Mistake this year was to mix them with another cover crop...It was too hard to cut them.  Also, our winter was so rough that the peas I planted in early November just didn't grow much at all until well into the spring.  Normally here, I could plant early-mid-November and have a great early crop of them.  This year I'll try to put them in at the end of October so they can get a little more growth before the cold weather comes.  They seem to survive anything.

Hattie's Garden
31341 Kendale Rd.
Lewes, DE 19958
302-945-0350



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