Out like a lamb?

March did indeed come in like a lion. It snowed on the 1st and a few times after. I thought on Saturday I might put my pea seedlings in the ground. Then husband reminded me that last year I made him promise to not let me plant too early. I am a little eager. So he wouldn't let me. Then it snowed today. I guess they'll stay in my kitchen window until mid-April, when my seed starting guide says it alright to put them out. In the meantime, I patiently listen for the sound of bleating sheep.

My kitchen window. Mostly peas. See how professionally I use plastic cups?
Two types of peas. I had them labeled at first because they were both sugar snaps. The difference is obvious now that they are 10-12 inches, so I took off the labels. The two on the left are super sugar snaps and the two on the right are called sugar lace II (see all the lacey tendrils?) I've also planted Maestro, a garden pea. Here is the difference: Sugar snaps are fat and puffy and you eat the shell as well as the pea. Garden peas have a tough shell, and the peas inside get scraped out for green peas (the little round kind your kids pick out of their dinner). Snow peas, which I have not tried to grow, are the ones that are flat and barely have any pea at all inside, so it's mostly the shell you eat.