ISSUE 9, SPRING, Part 3: Wando Pea

The South's Garden Pea

The Wando Garden Pea

For garden peas to make sense as a produce crop in the South, they had to be simultaneously cold tolerant and heat tolerant.  The volatile shifts in weather in southern winters and Springs meant at January planting it didn’t freeze, and at harvest, if it could ripen after standard varieties hit the market, it could be the last pea on…