It was a day of early harvest today. I harvested Legacy shelling peas, Knight shelling peas, Cascadia sugar snap peas (the fat, edible pod type), and Packman broccoli, and then spent four hours shelling the peas! We try to do major planting of these staples in order to freeze them. First they get blanched for a short time in hot water, cooled off, put on trays in our freezer, removed when they are frozen, packaged in vacuum sealed plastic bags in our food saver system, and then put in the freezer to have during the winter.
Another part of this adventure today was pulling out some of the earliest pea plantings, fertilizing the soil with chicken manure, blood meal, bone meal, greensand, and alfalfa seed meal, tilling the soil where the old plants stood, and raking it out to a smooth seed bed. Tomorrow, after the new moon, I'll be planting three types of bush beans in the spot that held the peas and the leeks we pulled today.
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| Legacy shelling peas |
Here are a few pictures (click to expand) that show the harvest.
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| Broccoli heads |
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| Cascadia sugar snap |
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| After blanching to the freezer tray |
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