My Winter snow peas are coming in!

@TheHorse (218548)
Walnut Creek, California
February 11, 2021 11:46am CST
My Winter snow peas started poking through a couple of weeks ago, and they're looking healthy as of today (February 11). I planted a couple of seeds in each of my planters, so hopefully I'll have a "wall of snow peas" in a couple of months. I also planted some cilantro, but I haven't had the best of luck with cilantro over the years. Maybe the birdies are gobbling up my seeds. How does your garden grow?
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@DaddyEvil (137257)
• United States
11 Feb 21
Out my front door. 02/11/21 photo is mine.
I just took a picture of my 'garden', pony. I'll share it with you.
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@xander6464 (44177)
• Wapello, Iowa
11 Feb 21
That's what my garden looks like, too. Not a lot of peas but plenty of snow.
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@DaddyEvil (137257)
• United States
11 Feb 21
@TheHorse There is a layer of ice under the snow... and it's still snowing. That photo was taken a couple of hours ago.
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@TheHorse (218548)
• Walnut Creek, California
11 Feb 21
Well, at least it looks pretty!
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@much2say (55562)
• Los Angeles, California
11 Feb 21
I haven't started a new garden . . . the old one is still thriving (somewhat) - surviving even though I'm not doing too much! It looks like some sweet peppers are almost ready to be picked. I have never had any luck with cilantro.
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@much2say (55562)
• Los Angeles, California
12 Feb 21
@TheHorse My cilantro just wilts and says the end.
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@TheHorse (218548)
• Walnut Creek, California
12 Feb 21
@much2say Mine grew for me and the kids in Oakland one year. It was a year I did NOT plant cilantro. Corn, green beans, sunflowers, and snow peas obey my commands. I love cilantro in Mexican and Thai food. But I also think God put it on our wonderful Earth to torment me.
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@TheHorse (218548)
• Walnut Creek, California
12 Feb 21
Cilantro is like cats in my world. It does what it wants.
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@FourWalls (67775)
• United States
11 Feb 21
How does my garden grow? Pretty good since I buried my ex husband under the watermelons. You got the peas, and we got the winter snow here.
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@FourWalls (67775)
• United States
11 Feb 21
@TheHorse — Horsey Dahmer!
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@TheHorse (218548)
• Walnut Creek, California
12 Feb 21
@FourWalls That's me!
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@TheHorse (218548)
• Walnut Creek, California
11 Feb 21
As you know, I keep my ex-es in the freezer. Yummy if cooked right. Yep, California is weird. In many ways.
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@JudyEv (339536)
• Rockingham, Australia
12 Feb 21
Mine doesn't grow at all but good luck with your snow peas.
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@TheHorse (218548)
• Walnut Creek, California
14 Feb 21
Don't you have SOME things the roos don't eat?
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@TheHorse (218548)
• Walnut Creek, California
14 Feb 21
@JudyEv I've been doing my "balcony garden" thing for years, so I can't remember if our roos, called deer, spared anything.
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@JudyEv (339536)
• Rockingham, Australia
14 Feb 21
@TheHorse Anything with a really strong perfume they seem to leave alone. They don't eat grevilleas but like callistemons (or it might be the other way around). They don't touch the golden diosma but that explodes if there is a fire, and so it goes on.
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@arunima25 (87770)
• Bangalore, India
11 Feb 21
Even my luck has not worked with all that I planted in mid January. No signs of carrots, capsicums, pumpkin and brinjal. Tomatoes, ladies finger, spinach, amaranthus, radish and chillies are doing good so far. Hopefully they survive and produce
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@TheHorse (218548)
• Walnut Creek, California
11 Feb 21
I think I have a young tomato plant trying to survive our temperate Winter. Good luck with yours!
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@TheHorse (218548)
• Walnut Creek, California
14 Feb 21
@arunima25 In Oakland, I had tomatoes all Winter one year (with the kids). But here at my house, it's a tad colder than in Oakland (in Winter).
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@arunima25 (87770)
• Bangalore, India
12 Feb 21
@TheHorse Hope it survives. The one that have sprouted are doing good. I guess the other seeds didn't work.
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@CarolDM (203422)
• Nashville, Tennessee
11 Feb 21
No garden here. Good for you. And I am sure the birds appreciate the seeds.
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@TheHorse (218548)
• Walnut Creek, California
12 Feb 21
I've seen some unusually fat sparrows around here recently.
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@TheHorse (218548)
• Walnut Creek, California
14 Feb 21
@CarolDM Elaborate!
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@CarolDM (203422)
• Nashville, Tennessee
12 Feb 21
@TheHorse Trying to keep those away here by using the whole peanuts. I don't put out seeds.They will kill the bluebirds that are coming in a few weeks to raise families.
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@allknowing (136088)
• India
12 Feb 21
I remember reading your peas posts and glad that you are still growing them.
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@TheHorse (218548)
• Walnut Creek, California
12 Feb 21
I try to grow them pretty much every Winter.
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@ShyBear88 (59347)
• Sterling, Virginia
11 Feb 21
My garden sighs. My mint thrive like no other in the front yard wouldn’t mind it taking over the whole flower bed. We took out these bushes which caused a bunch of wood root to the house that we got blamed for by my husbands grandparents like we put those bushes there.
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@TheHorse (218548)
• Walnut Creek, California
11 Feb 21
Did you have to replace some wood?
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@ShyBear88 (59347)
• Sterling, Virginia
11 Feb 21
@TheHorse no they have to replace some wood because it’s there property we just live in it. We choice too take the bush out since it was the cause of the problem and they said we could do whatever we wanted to the flower bed so we did. It’ll help with allergies
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@marlina (154131)
• Canada
11 Feb 21
My garden is peacefully sleeping under feet of snow
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@TheHorse (218548)
• Walnut Creek, California
11 Feb 21
Heh. Enjoy the calm.
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@wolfgirl569 (105945)
• Marion, Ohio
12 Feb 21
It turns an awful white color.
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@TheHorse (218548)
• Walnut Creek, California
14 Feb 21
I would be traumatized.
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@RasmaSandra (79714)
• Daytona Beach, Florida
12 Feb 21
Good luck with your snow peas they are looking good, I have not more garden but I poked 3 potatoes into a pot so I will see if anything develops.
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@TheHorse (218548)
• Walnut Creek, California
12 Feb 21
Good luck!
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@cintol (11261)
• United States
14 Feb 21
Those look good and healthy, mine was just starting and then we got snow! Their not pretty anymore coz no one in Texas expects this much snow! We don't even have shovels lol
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@TheHorse (218548)
• Walnut Creek, California
14 Feb 21
Do you think they will survive?
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@TheHorse (218548)
• Walnut Creek, California
14 Feb 21
@cintol I have asked my snow peas to send thoughts and prayers.
@cintol (11261)
• United States
14 Feb 21
@TheHorse Not looking good at this point, everything is flattened, we are not used to snow here and we have inches of the stuff today
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@Dena91 (16587)
• United States
11 Feb 21
Glad your peas are healthy. We haven't had a garden in a few years, that said our garlic, asparagus, fruit and nut trees keep us busy enough. They come back every year without us having to plant them.
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@TheHorse (218548)
• Walnut Creek, California
11 Feb 21
That sounds cool. I wonder how much space I'd need to grow garlic. I like cooking with it.
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@TheHorse (218548)
• Walnut Creek, California
14 Feb 21
@Dena91 Maybe I will research it. Gilroy CA claims to be the garlic capital of the world.
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@Dena91 (16587)
• United States
12 Feb 21
@TheHorse We have ours in a row, doesn't take up a lot of space. Maybe you tube it you might be able to grow some in a pot. We grow the elephant variety as it isn't as strong a flavor.
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@LindaOHio (178103)
• United States
12 Feb 21
Good going! We still have s**w on the ground and are getting too old to tend to a garden. We have cherry tomatoes that keep coming up in the front flower bed; so I guess we'll have some of those this summer.
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@TheHorse (218548)
• Walnut Creek, California
14 Feb 21
For me, corn and green beans are a piece of easy cake. But I grow the former just for decorative purposes.
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@oahuwriter (26777)
• United States
14 Feb 21
Soon some nice veggies fresh from your garden. I've only aloe. Living in apt, water included, so I use recycled water for plants not to waste water.
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@TheHorse (218548)
• Walnut Creek, California
14 Feb 21
We had lots of fresh aloe when I visited my friends in Florida. It was good for a sunburn.
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@oahuwriter (26777)
• United States
16 Feb 21
@TheHorse It is. It's good for all sort of skin irritation but gooey.
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@TheHorse (218548)
• Walnut Creek, California
16 Feb 21
@oahuwriter Gooey didn't bother me when it made the pain and itch go away.
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