A couple of weeks ago you may remember, I dumped the peas I had started before from old seeds …. they just didn’t take. So I started again with new seeds.

Typically if you are starting seedlings for the garden, peas is NOT one that you stay inside as they grow fast anyway but also don’t transplant well. However, I’m growing these not with the intention of harvesting peas. These ones are growing to be used as greens and add extra dimension, flavor and nutrients to salads, stir fry, etc.

Pea leaves, stems and all taste just like …. drum roll please ….. PEAS!! Who knew?! So I’ll be picking leaves off while small and then “thinning” by picking some of the plants to break or cut up into dinners!

This is a simple and great way to be growing some variety for salads 🙂 and meet that spring time natural demand for FRESH greens!

Did you know that that demand we feel in the spring for fresh greens is our body preparing for a spring cleaning?! After being closed up and eating more stored foods, heavier comfort foods, being less active, fighting various winter sicknesses our body needs a good cleaning! Fresh foods help clean us out! Which is why it’s so great to get some greens growing inside before we can do so outside!

Peas are fun to grow too, they push the ground or soil up well enough even young children can notice them coming which is exciting! Then they grow quickly!

Isn’t that amazing! Such a great learning experience too for young and old!

As you can see I planted 2 varieties. The Dwarf Grey Sugar Peas are tall and quick growing … in a garden these should be climbing a trellis or fence already! The Laxton’s progress #9 are shorter, slower growing but very bushy at this point and definitely is a better option for my purposes here inside! I’ve linked to where you can get both incase you would like some without going out 😉

I am definitely planning to keep plenty of seeds from the Laxton’s progress plants from the garden in order to be able to grow them inside for greens all winter! They are so tasty and such a nice and fun addition!

Keep in mind when planting your garden, when you get to time to thin out your pea plants …. dont just toss them on the compost pile anymore! Eat them! It’s almost like free food since you normally would have tossed it out 🤷‍♀️

Let us know if you have found any fun things to grow indoors or if you plan to try 😁