pea stand

With a few bamboo sticks and strings, we have constructed some support for our shelling peas and snow peas. This is the first time we tried this method. We'll see how well works.

Mark has also set up some trails for the hop plants to climb. The hops will be climbing from the ground up all the way to the top of the patio and across to the pole that we installed a couple years ago. You can see in the picture that there is a hop branch (by the stairs railing) shooting up.

Peas

Finally, we have a sunny day! Got to plant some veggies. We've put snow peas on the east yard and shelling pea on the west. Mark's mom gave us the Chinese snow peas (coated in pink) last year. Hopefully the seeds are still good. We brought two varieties of shelling peas from West Coast Seeds:

Oregon Trail: mature in 60 days (we'll see!)
Paladio: short plant, long pods, usually in doubles (120 days)