Pea Piccolo Provenzale (101-2)

None of these left the farm. I know, they're supposed to be for customers, but my neighbor and I got together and I decided to make peas and pasta. In a simple cheese sauce, these peas just shine. So sweet and delicious, that we had to have them again! And again! So this year, I'm planting two 50' rows, so that someone else may get a chance to try them. I plant these both in fall and in early spring. Hardy, productive and delicious!

As I noted above, they started to bear at the end of Sept. from a fall planting. The kids are still munching on them in the garden, so they are also long cropping. The harvest has slowed a bit, but the kids are popping them as flat " Chinese " type morsels now as we are expecting frost in a few weeks, not giving them time to fill out. They are so tender and sweet and still flowering

These are the rustic country peas. They are small,sweet and tender. I have only been able to cook once in several years of growing late winter and fall, since my 3 daughters( aged 7-11) "help" me shell them. Unfortunately they eat them as fast as they shell them, not leaving any to cook! Wonderful! As to the 36", maybe it is just in my garden, but they get to 6 inches and start bearing and never have they gotten taller than 18 inches.