My kids love peas! They especially love Sugar Snap Peas. For a regular week night dinner, I am not opposed to popping a frozen bag of steamed veggi’s in the microwave. We probably have steam in the bag veggi’s 3x per week in the winter. But, when spring comes, I can’t help but get the gardening bug! I am so tired of the dreary weather that winter brings and living in the Northeast, this year is a prime example of how nasty winter weather can be. But, I digress.
Spring is a happy time. A time of green! This year, I decided to get my kids involved. My son is loving this gardening project. We planted a whole garden full of veggi’s in our front bay window. (Our dog’s favorite spot to lounge out… Sorry Rocky!)
Peas are a GREAT starter vegetable if you’ve never planted a garden before. And an especially great one if you’re getting your kids involved. They germinate quickly and give you lots and lots of yummy veggi goodness in not such a long time. And if you are in the northern part of the country, they are one of the first plantable plants outside. They are actually considered a spring veggi as they don’t do so well in the extreme heat of summer. Peas are a wonderful source of Vitamin K, fiber, manganese, B-1 (all the B’s really) and Vitamin C to name a few!
Today, I will show you a little of how we have started our garden. Disclaimer… Peas normally get planted right outside, but we wanted to start early and inside when it was much too cold, so I’ll show you how we will remedy that at the end.
We started with some ‘starter soil’ that is good for seeding your own vegetation. Placed that in a recyclable paper pot.
We put two little peas in the dirt. My son loved this part!
It took about a week before we saw a little green coming up through the dirt. And about 5 weeks later we saw this.
A week later we saw this! Peas are vine growers, and these are ready to start grabbing on to something!
My son reminds me every day that we need to water the plants. (No, that is not actual spring water he is watering with… we recycled the bottle and it gives him a lot of control over where the water ends up)
Our next step, is to bring the plants outside each day this week and plant them next week sometime… Stay tuned!