My dad sampled some of my Telephone peas raw the other day, straight off the plant. He really liked them, which surprised me considering that he's usually super-critical of my "weird" growing methods (organic square foot gardening, seed saving, etc) and my tendency to go for old-fashioned interesting varieties as well as unusual newer ones.
He doesn't get why I don't grow the same short peas everyone else grows, in rows miles apart in a garden full of dodgy chemicals. A few weeks ago he told me my lovely tall peas are "too tall to be only just making pods", when they are perfectly normal. But apparently he can't argue with the taste of Telephone!
