5 Tips How to Grow a Ton of Snow Peas

G'day Everyone, firstly thanks for your support! I didn't elaborate much on the "price" of snow peas in this video but as an afterthought, I do think it is worth saying that even when in season this vegetable is expensive to buy from the supermarket. You might find them cheaper or more expensive but conservatively they cost around $20 AU per kg (2 lbs) on average and that is significant so definitely worth growing as a cost-saving alone! Anyway, just thought I'd mention that... Also, feel free to check out my website I'm in the process of improving my site and this should be complete within the next several weeks. I am slowly developing a "support page" where I log all the products and "stuff" I use and promote as a way to help keep my channel, blog, and forum going and thus keep creating content as relying on YouTube alone is a fickle and unstable business model lol... selfsufficientme.com/support-self-sufficient-me Finally, I've been reading and receiving more than usual messages lately from people who are finding it hard to cope during the current issues facing the world. Gardening might not fix these problems but it can help you better manage the stress they cause so please - Get Into It! Cheers :)

My snow pea just kept growing this year, with no flowers. I did some research and discovered that I fertilised the bed at the wrong time and there was probably too much nitrogen. It was suggested that I add potash to trick them into flowering. I experimented and added pot ash to one side of the snow pea bed. In a day the flowers came out on that side. I thought this might be handy to someone out there.

After 13 years of a toxic marriage, Ive been on my own since November. I never though I would be a gardner, but apparently growing plants has been the best therapy ever, 😆 Started with a single plant on the porch. That grew into dozens of houseplants and even more outside. Then the food gardening began. Its only been a few months now of growing veggies, but I am proud when I have peopke over, because everything is growing so well. And I owe almost all of it to your videos. I googled a vid on carrots I think and found your channel. You really have a natural gift for teaching in an amazing way. I just wanted to say thanks for doing these and I fully intend to start at the beginning and watch every single one.

The Steve Irwin of Nature...

I grow my peas on my fence. Fence is there, might as well make use of it!

Now I know why I've never liked snow peas. They're never crunchy in the supermarket. I've only had the sad floppy ones

I have been binge-watching you for days and I must say your content is fantastic. Informative and educational, straight-talking as you practically demonstrate with no hint of condescension or trying to sell you something. And no click-bait thumbnails. Excellent, just excellent. This is what should be taught in our schools.

Dried or dehydrated peas make a great addition to soups and stews. I really love that you mentioned fermentation, not only as a way of storing produce, but also a great way of enhancing the flavor and feeding our gut biome. So many things that most Americans eat destroys their gut biome and so few things restore it as well as naturally fermented foods.

I am growing snow peas for the first time in my south Louisiana raised bed garden. I just stuck some pea seeds in the ground and they grew like crazy!!! I have about a 4 foot line of them and harvested about 3 handfuls today! I ate a few raw and am going to steam them for supper!!!

I really appreciate when you show spiders and other critters ‘protecting’ your garden. I still jump and run away when I find one but I’m working on seeing them as signs of life in a symbiotic relationship, but it’s hard sometimes!

Growing some in my garden this year. Pray for the Lord's blessing for me! God bless.

Mark...Texas Native here growing TONS of food myself. I just wanted to pop in and say how much I love your show just for the fellowship. Keep rocking, brother! 😎🤟🏼🇺🇸

Great video, Mark! A while back my husband came home from the gardening store with seed packets including (among other things) peas. Okay, I thought, you don't like peas and tend to pick around them in stir fry and other dishes, but whatever. To my surprise, he's been intensely interested in the growing process and has apparently decided that training the vines up through the trellis is his personal responsibility. (Works for me, as the shorter of the two of us. 😄) And to my surprise, apparently he loves eating peas if he's grown them himself. Next time we're going to plant twice as many rows and also do better on the succession planting.

The cost of snow peas now in Western Australia is $30 a kilo! I decided to grow them when I couldn’t afford to buy them and thanks to your tips I’ve got snow peas for my family and many others I’ve shared around with! So thrilled and was my first time ever growing peas and my first plant growing in a different climate to what I’m use to

I love how every week he get more and more into his pickling hobby and brings us along with him on his journey.

The fun of watching pea plants grow and climb is a reason by itself to give them a go. The plants with hands!

You know Mark, I live in a small studio apartment by San Francisco, California. My landlord won't even allow me to have a window box, but I just love watching your videos and I could watch them all day. Hopefully some day I'll be able to afford a place with a yard so I can put some of your excellent advice to work. I might even get a dog too. All the best to you!

I always interspersely plant all my crops with onion and/or garlic as I find it helps keep pest bugs away very effectively.

The pea plant has aided civilization for many millenia. Given a good environment they just want to grow. Nearly every part of the plant is edible. Pea leaves can be eaten raw or cooked. I'd eat the flowers if not waiting patiently for pods. Seeing this video I'm going to branch out and grow snowpeas, too. I say this as I cook a pot of split pea soup and watch my indoor pea plants reach for the ceiling. You can almost watch them grow! An interesting note for anyone familiar with the Eastern Redbud tree, native to the Americas. It is a true legume that produces edible pods that taste like snowpeas when picked young and green. We pick bushels of them and freeze them each year, after a quick blanching.

FERMENTATION RECIPE: I'll give you all a quick recipe that I've used for years- - Mason or fido jar, screw top jar of any size. - Brine: 1.5 teaspoons kosher or other non-iodized salt per cup of purified water, and do not use tap water. Just mix the water until the salt dissolves, no heating. You will use whatever amount of this brine until it covers your veggies. - Pack the jar extremely tightly with your rinsed peas, you don't want them floating in the brine. Pack until the jar has an inch or two of headspace, otherwise the jar might overflow. - Pour the brine over the veggies until they are fully submerged. Add a large pinch of red pepper flakes (my favorite), or whatever spices you want. You can add whole or sliced garlic cloves, black peppercorns, whatever you want to flavor it. - Use a fermentation weight if you can, otherwise don't worry. Seal your jar completely and twice a day just lightly unscrew or open your jar to allow carbon dioxide / carbonation to leave the jar. Do not peek inside, just let the co2 escape and reseal. You should see bubbles developing in and around the pea pods by day two or three. - After 5 days, put the jar in the fridge. It will continue to very slowly ferment there for months or years, but your peas by now have enough lactic acid developed to be preserved and safe. - If you see mold or yeast development on top of the brine after 5 days, just toss it unless you know what you're doing. - If you have any questions about the process, visit the /r/fermentation subreddit on the website Reddit.com. This is an extremely helpful community that will help you learn how to ferment anything and everything.