Pea Shoots!

This is what is keeping me sane while the weather is too freezing to go outside growing anything - Pea Shoots.

Below is a picture of the little fellas being planted. I soaked the peas (regular pea seeds) in water for an hour and then popped them into a little seedling tray, around a cm deep and covered them with compost. When they started appearing i put the whole round of compost with all seedlings into a bigger pot and voila - here they are growing happily in the top picture!

When they get to be a few inches high, cut them down to around an inch and eat the tops. They are nice flavourful little salad leaves. The stalk is nice too. They will grow back again a number of times before they start giving up the ghost.