In past years, our peapods haven't amounted to much: single, straggly stalks that produced a few pods and then died. This year for some reason has been different: they're going wild. We've already picked a pound and a half of peapods, by far our best year, and they show no sign of quitting. I even had to (gasp) prune them today because so many stalks are coming out of each root. So far they are out best crop this year, outperforming even the radishes (which got hit hard by chinch bugs).
Maybe it's our new sprinkler system. We plant peapods along the edge of each raised bed, and maybe the center-sprinkler method wasn't keeping them wet enough.
In any case, we're doing a lot of stir fries this year!
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