Peas - some thoughts

Starting to harvest peas now and it's clear that they are a tricky thing to do in terms of actually providing food for the table.  It's been quite satisfying to get the plants past the slugs and the pigeons and they are fairly attractive plants, if a little wild. 

There are quite a few pods but all a different stages of maturity which makes it hard to pick enough for a meal.

Here's a pod with a nice set of fully grown peas. (For a sense of scale the peas are the size of peas)

So, you pick a stack of pods which seem to be ready and leave the rest to carry on growing, open them all up and this is what you get.

Ok, not that many pods but they were the ones that seemed ready.  Enough for a single portion or maybe a few MasterChef type plates where I could scatter a dozen or so in an artful manner I guess.