The tender tendrils of Sugar Snap Peas....
Wednesday, June 10, 2009 at 10:30PM The picture below shows a growing tendril from a sugar snap pea borrowing the strength of another object to hold itself up as it grows.

Although the picture is fascinating, and the plant is wrapping around a stake, the wrapped around object might not find the moment so tender if it's another living plant.....
SPEAKING OF STAKING...
You don't have to buy fancy stakes for your pea or bean plants. In this and other pictures, you will notice that we have used dead twigs and branches to support the growing plants. Fencing or trellises are also good. Whatever works is fine!
...and their tender, juicy pods. Incredibly, they really are crispy and sugary. They are a little slow coming this wet season, and in slug- and woodchuck-prone gardens they have not survived those hungry beasts. But what a treat they are!
I will be re-sowing some seeds, now that my garden beds are (hopefully!) well protected against the Marauding Marmotas*. If the weather stays this way, with cool temperatures and record amounts of rain here in the Hudson Valley, maybe we'll have a midsummer crop of Sugar Snap Peas.
*(that's Marmota Monax, Latin name for the adorable but greedy groundhog/woodchuck/whistle pig)
