Perennial Kitchen Garden

[MaryN]

Hi there, S - good on you. Enjoy your asparagus.

Oh yes, the asparagus pea. Well, I have grown them - they are fairly
easy to grow; very similar to peas in fact. You cook the seedpods whole. Got to say, and it is only my opinion, but I'm not a great one for vegetables that taste of something else, if you see what I mean. Personally, I would simply grow asparagus and also plant peas, for the sheer pleasure of gorging myself on two really wonderful vegetables that taste just great as themselves. Not explaining myself well. Try growing asparagus peas and see what you think. You need to pick the pods when they are quite small - they get tough very quickly as they age. The pods look quite odd and get rather tough and scratchy as they age - the look of them put me off a bit......but I like to give everything a fair crack. Would I grow them again? Nope, but that's just me.