the garden update

Most of these pictures are for Tim to get a little flavor of how our backyard farm is going. The peas look short in the picture only because some fairly strong winds in a storm a week earlier had blown quite a few vines off of the fence we used to train up the pea plants. (In reality the vines were about twice the height of the fnce and I had to continually wind them down and to the sides to keep them off the ground.) I couldn't get them to wind back around the fencing without breaking some of the vines, so I gave up. We just had to gently move the vines around to find all the peas. The last picture shows one of the three or four large piles of peas that we would get in one pick. I was able to prep and freeze about 31/2 quarts of peas and made a big wok of beef and pea pod stir fry for dinner last week-DELISH!
Adele was by far the all star pea picker and she washed most of them off herself. Then she would usually divide them up into bags for us to save and give away to our friends and neighbors. She is so generous with our produce. I have since pulled up those plants and started a fall crop so hopefully we will have some fresh sugar snaps when Tim arrives home.