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The next in my series of ATCs using peas from the field that is the subject of my Photo a Week project. The peas are white and green, against silver foil, which is sitting on gold embossed foil paper.
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Peas and beans exhibit a type of forced -selfing due to what is called a cloistgamous reproductive structure. What that means is that the pollen is shed and picked up by the stigma while it and the anthers are still tucked away, safe from all other pollen sources.
For this reason, most of these crops are available as true-to-type landraces.
Yet another reasons why legumes rock.
The peas are growing like gangbusters! In the four days since this photo was taken they're actually even larger! Crazy, huh? Now you can just start flowering little pea plants. Flower, flower flower!
We'd like to say this is our very first outside pea sprouting triumphantly in the face of incessant winter, but that's not entirely correct. Is third pea. But the first two were in a kind of unphotographable spot, so this will have to do.
Pea Island Lifesavers Historical Marker...Located at the Pea Island nature center, We were there when they dedicated it.
In this close-up you can see that the snow peas on the right are far ahead of the sugar snap peas on the left edge of the photo.
by Bunrei Maekawa (1837-1917) , included in Bunrei Gafu (Picture Album of by Bunrei) – Japanese picture book pubished in 1885
Sweet peas in my garden. I used a Faded filter to soften the focus & make the colours slightly more delicate, & added a narrow border.
Sweat Pea socks by Melissa Morgan-Oakes (free pattern at Knitty; yarn is Indigo Moon Merino Fingering in Green Apple; sock has been shortened to biking/hiking length and the ruffled edge in the pattern has been replaced with a Latvian Twist edging.