I learned to cook with pea greens (especially stir fries) when we lived
up in Madison and I shopped at the Farmer's Market there. Now we have
our own garden again but we don't know which peas are especially good
for nice tender pea greens. Can someone help me out here so I know what
to plant for next year? Thanks!

Phaedrine Stonebridge said:

I learned to cook with pea greens (especially stir fries) when we lived
up in Madison and I shopped at the Farmer's Market there. Now we have
our own garden again but we don't know which peas are especially good
for nice tender pea greens. Can someone help me out here so I know what
to plant for next year? Thanks!

I believe these would be young plants of snowpeas -- whatever variety is available
very cheaply. Plant thickly, chop them all down when they are a few inches tall.
These would be best planted intrays (think wheat grass) and greenhouse
produced. (You could probably snip the growing tips from snowpeas planted
in the garden, too, but the yeild of greens would be small and would hurt the
yeild of peapods.)

Pea greens are delicious sauteed very quickly with garlic in extremely hot oil.

Here's a webpage I found where you could order wheatgrass, various greens
(including pea greens) or seeds and trays for growing your own pea greens:

https://host.securelook.com/gourmetg/order.shtml

And looking further, info on growing peagreens in trays:

[from http://www.herbalhut.com/fyi/sprouting_seeds.htm]

Soil Method

For growing wheat grass, buckwheat, millet lettuce, sunflower greens, pea greens
and barley grass.

Soak 1¼ lbs seed in water for 12 hours. Fill 17" by 17" wheatgrass tray with ½" soil
or compost. Rinse seed and spread over soil. Sprinkle until soil is moist. Place
another tray inside the tray you planted so that it rests directly on the seed. Water
twice daily. On the third day the sprouts should start to lift the tray. Remove tray and
water as needed. When sprouts reach desired height, snip and enjoy. For small
seed, soak about 1/3 cup seed and transfer to soil after sprouting in jar for 1 to 2
days.



--
Pat in Plymouth MI

Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced.
(attributed to Don Marti)

Phaedrine Stonebridge wrote:



I learned to cook with pea greens (especially stir fries) when we lived
up in Madison and I shopped at the Farmer's Market there. Now we have
our own garden again but we don't know which peas are especially good
for nice tender pea greens. Can someone help me out here so I know what
to plant for next year? Thanks!

Check out my reply to your post under the subject "A Rewarding Day"
over in rec.food.preserving

Best regards,

Ross.

On Thu, 10 Jul 2003 22:21:57 -0500, Phaedrine Stonebridge
wrote:



I learned to cook with pea greens (especially stir fries) when we lived
up in Madison and I shopped at the Farmer's Market there. Now we have
our own garden again but we don't know which peas are especially good
for nice tender pea greens. Can someone help me out here so I know what
to plant for next year? Thanks!

As far as I know, all would be.

Me, I'm going to grow Sugar Snaps of one kind or another:
they are so wonderful, plus you get more from them.

My husband (stuffy Brit that he is! - about food, anyway)
sniffs at the idea of 'eating pea pods'. He can shell the
Sugar Snaps if he wants to.

I'm not bothering with English peas, you need far too many
of them to get any reasonable amount.

Pat

Phaedrine Stonebridge wrote in message ...
I learned to cook with pea greens (especially stir fries) when we lived
up in Madison and I shopped at the Farmer's Market there. Now we have
our own garden again but we don't know which peas are especially good
for nice tender pea greens. Can someone help me out here so I know what
to plant for next year? Thanks!

Look on the web for sprouting seeds. The last time I bought some, they
were very tough, but not always. Buy no less than a pound, they go
fast.

Phaedrine Stonebridge wrote in message ...
I learned to cook with pea greens (especially stir fries) when we lived
up in Madison and I shopped at the Farmer's Market there. Now we have
our own garden again but we don't know which peas are especially good
for nice tender pea greens. Can someone help me out here so I know what
to plant for next year? Thanks!

Also, pea greens will come up indoors - the only veggie you can eat
fresh in january and february. I use seedling trays, fill them with
good soil, scatter the peas very thickly, and cover with some more
soil. You can water them soggy and will still come up and be ready in
17-21 days depending on temp (I only have to water twice).
At the end, you are left with a slab of soil, held together by a web
of pea roots, good to go in the compost pile for breakdown.

In article ,
(Pat Kiewicz) wrote:

Phaedrine Stonebridge said:

I learned to cook with pea greens (especially stir fries) when we
lived up in Madison and I shopped at the Farmer's Market there. Now
we have our own garden again but we don't know which peas are
especially good for nice tender pea greens. Can someone help me out
here so I know what to plant for next year? Thanks!

I believe these would be young plants of snowpeas -- whatever variety
is available very cheaply. Plant thickly, chop them all down when
they are a few inches tall. These would be best planted intrays
(think wheat grass) and greenhouse produced. (You could probably
snip the growing tips from snowpeas planted in the garden, too, but
the yeild of greens would be small and would hurt the yeild of
peapods.)

Pea greens are delicious sauteed very quickly with garlic in
extremely hot oil.

Here's a webpage I found where you could order wheatgrass, various
greens (including pea greens) or seeds and trays for growing your own
pea greens:

https://host.securelook.com/gourmetg/order.shtml

And looking further, info on growing peagreens in trays:

[from http://www.herbalhut.com/fyi/sprouting_seeds.htm]

Soil Method

For growing wheat grass, buckwheat, millet lettuce, sunflower greens,
pea greens and barley grass.

Soak 1¼ lbs seed in water for 12 hours. Fill 17" by 17" wheatgrass
tray with ½" soil or compost. Rinse seed and spread over soil.
Sprinkle until soil is moist. Place another tray inside the tray you
planted so that it rests directly on the seed. Water twice daily. On
the third day the sprouts should start to lift the tray. Remove tray
and water as needed. When sprouts reach desired height, snip and
enjoy. For small seed, soak about 1/3 cup seed and transfer to soil
after sprouting in jar for 1 to 2 days.


Wow! What great information. Thanks so much!

In article ,
(Pat Kiewicz) wrote:

Phaedrine Stonebridge said:

I learned to cook with pea greens (especially stir fries) when we
lived up in Madison and I shopped at the Farmer's Market there. Now
we have our own garden again but we don't know which peas are
especially good for nice tender pea greens. Can someone help me out
here so I know what to plant for next year? Thanks!

I believe these would be young plants of snowpeas -- whatever variety
is available very cheaply. Plant thickly, chop them all down when
they are a few inches tall. These would be best planted intrays
(think wheat grass) and greenhouse produced. (You could probably
snip the growing tips from snowpeas planted in the garden, too, but
the yeild of greens would be small and would hurt the yeild of
peapods.)

Pea greens are delicious sauteed very quickly with garlic in
extremely hot oil.

Here's a webpage I found where you could order wheatgrass, various
greens (including pea greens) or seeds and trays for growing your own
pea greens:

https://host.securelook.com/gourmetg/order.shtml

And looking further, info on growing peagreens in trays:

[from http://www.herbalhut.com/fyi/sprouting_seeds.htm]

Soil Method

For growing wheat grass, buckwheat, millet lettuce, sunflower greens,
pea greens and barley grass.

Soak 1¼ lbs seed in water for 12 hours. Fill 17" by 17" wheatgrass
tray with ½" soil or compost. Rinse seed and spread over soil.
Sprinkle until soil is moist. Place another tray inside the tray you
planted so that it rests directly on the seed. Water twice daily. On
the third day the sprouts should start to lift the tray. Remove tray
and water as needed. When sprouts reach desired height, snip and
enjoy. For small seed, soak about 1/3 cup seed and transfer to soil
after sprouting in jar for 1 to 2 days.


Wow! What great information. Thanks so much!

In article ,
(simy1) wrote:

Phaedrine Stonebridge wrote in message
...
I learned to cook with pea greens (especially stir fries) when we lived
up in Madison and I shopped at the Farmer's Market there. Now we have
our own garden again but we don't know which peas are especially good
for nice tender pea greens. Can someone help me out here so I know what
to plant for next year? Thanks!

Also, pea greens will come up indoors - the only veggie you can eat
fresh in january and february. I use seedling trays, fill them with
good soil, scatter the peas very thickly, and cover with some more
soil. You can water them soggy and will still come up and be ready in
17-21 days depending on temp (I only have to water twice).
At the end, you are left with a slab of soil, held together by a web
of pea roots, good to go in the compost pile for breakdown.


I am definitely going to try this!! Thanks

Phaedrine Stonebridge wrote in message ...
In article ,
(simy1) wrote:

Phaedrine Stonebridge wrote in message
...
I learned to cook with pea greens (especially stir fries) when we lived
up in Madison and I shopped at the Farmer's Market there. Now we have
our own garden again but we don't know which peas are especially good
for nice tender pea greens. Can someone help me out here so I know what
to plant for next year? Thanks!

Also, pea greens will come up indoors - the only veggie you can eat
fresh in january and february. I use seedling trays, fill them with
good soil, scatter the peas very thickly, and cover with some more
soil. You can water them soggy and will still come up and be ready in
17-21 days depending on temp (I only have to water twice).
At the end, you are left with a slab of soil, held together by a web
of pea roots, good to go in the compost pile for breakdown.


I am definitely going to try this!! Thanks

more on it and then I will stop. I only do them in winter because,
well, they get ready all together, they are good for a week or less,
and even with a single tray you have to eat pea greens for 4-5
evenings (I use about 1/2 pound per tray, another reason not to use
pea seeds - way too expensive).

The greens are cut-and-come again (twice, three times if you are
desperate for winter greens as they become tougher), a good thing if
your whole garden is two trays. Unlike buckwheat or sunflower,
germination with peas (even a few years old) is always excellent, they
don't care if the temp is in the 50, and they don't catch damping off.
so if you seed a tray thickly, you will get a solid mass of greens. In
their prime (3 inches) they are a great salad green, mild but with a
definite flavor. I suppose for stir fries you will have to seed them a
lot less thickly and let them grow longer.

In article ,
(simy1) wrote:

more on it and then I will stop. I only do them in winter because,
well, they get ready all together, they are good for a week or less,
and even with a single tray you have to eat pea greens for 4-5
evenings (I use about 1/2 pound per tray, another reason not to use
pea seeds - way too expensive).

The greens are cut-and-come again (twice, three times if you are
desperate for winter greens as they become tougher), a good thing if
your whole garden is two trays. Unlike buckwheat or sunflower,
germination with peas (even a few years old) is always excellent, they
don't care if the temp is in the 50, and they don't catch damping off.
so if you seed a tray thickly, you will get a solid mass of greens. In
their prime (3 inches) they are a great salad green, mild but with a
definite flavor. I suppose for stir fries you will have to seed them a
lot less thickly and let them grow longer.


We start all our own plants under lights in a small room in the basement
so trying this would be no problem for me whatever. The pea greens i
used to get in the spring in Madison from the Hmong farmers up there
were about 6 inches long in bundles the diameter of a softball. VERY
tender. I'd usually get a couple bundles a week. I adapted use of them
in just about anything including stir fries, salads, dressings, omelets,
risotto, boiled potatoes, gratins, soups, etc etc etc. I am big on
greens of all kinds, really.

On Fri, 11 Jul 2003 17:27:12 -0500, Phaedrine Stonebridge
wrote:



Pea greens are delicious sauteed very quickly with garlic in
extremely hot oil.

Here's a webpage I found where you could order wheatgrass, various
greens (including pea greens) or seeds and trays for growing your own
pea greens:

https://host.securelook.com/gourmetg/order.shtml


WOW! They charge $17.50 for 5 lbs of buckwheat. That's
$3.50/lb.

I just bought buckwheat seeds for use as a cover crop. I
paid $0.57/lb. It would have been less if I'd bought a
large quantity, but I only needed a couple of pounds. I
bought it from Agway (farm and feed store).

But even if you bought buckwheat, wheat, and sunflower seeds
from natural food stores - or online natural-food sellers -
it would be an awful lot less than the prices on that site.

Online natural food sellers: http://www.barryfarm.com
http://www.bulkfoods.com

There are of course others as well.

I don't know how much the seed-houses charge for pea seed by
the pound. I saw it in a local Agway and IIRC it was about
$1/lb. (I can't remember for sure.)

Pat

In article ,
Pat Meadows wrote:

On Fri, 11 Jul 2003 17:27:12 -0500, Phaedrine Stonebridge
wrote:

Actually, I did not post that, Pat K. did.


Pea greens are delicious sauteed very quickly with garlic in
extremely hot oil.

Here's a webpage I found where you could order wheatgrass, various
greens (including pea greens) or seeds and trays for growing your own
pea greens:

https://host.securelook.com/gourmetg/order.shtml


WOW! They charge $17.50 for 5 lbs of buckwheat. That's
$3.50/lb.

Yes that is kind of expensive.

I just bought buckwheat seeds for use as a cover crop. I
paid $0.57/lb. It would have been less if I'd bought a
large quantity, but I only needed a couple of pounds. I
bought it from Agway (farm and feed store).

But even if you bought buckwheat, wheat, and sunflower seeds
from natural food stores - or online natural-food sellers -
it would be an awful lot less than the prices on that site.

Online natural food sellers: http://www.barryfarm.com
http://www.bulkfoods.com

There are of course others as well.

I don't know how much the seed-houses charge for pea seed by
the pound. I saw it in a local Agway and IIRC it was about
$1/lb. (I can't remember for sure.)

Pat