Oh, wow, that’s a lot of rodent pressure.
Any plans to collect a few outdoor cats? 
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We tried cats, they are just snacks for the coyote pack. I just keep planting, there are plenty of seeds, something always makes it.
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And you have coyotes! 
Wowee! Do they eat the rodents? 
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Really…
um not enough, the coyotes are outnumbered. As you know when you grow a delicious garden, everything will eat some of it. So, just keep planting different seeds.
Yep, that’s the way to keep chugging on! I’m glad you’re doing it. 
I could never stop, its gotta get better, seeds will find a way. 
Yes, they will! 
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Alternating a week of 60 degrees and rain/a couple days over 100/70 and cloudy with heavy dew in the morning finally started to get the attention of my patch. Some growing tips died off, and the powdery mildew got a toehold. Also, some of the pods for seed sprouted on the vine (I wasn’t prepared for the 3 days of steady rain this time of year). I will still have seed to contribute. We’re eating green peas as fast as we can for a few more days, then I’ll start pulling vines to make room for Armenian cukes and cowpeas.
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Nice vines, still covered in blooms. I noticed my pea patch has all white blooms and they are shelling peas and snap peas only. Snow peas have the pink and purple blossoms.
That may be true in your specific population, but flower and pod color in peas is not genetically linked to growth habit, seed type, or pod type. You can theoretically get most combinations of these traits through crossing or breeding. Many commercial snow peas have white blossoms, and one of my dual-purpose snap/dry peas has beautiful colored flowers.
There is an excellent summary of many of the known genes involved with peas in Carol Deppe’s book, Breed Your Own Vegetable Varieties. There is more than one gene involved with flower color, but white flowers are a recessive trait, so crossing them with colored flowers may increase frequency of colored flowers in your population over time if that trait doesn’t impact overall vigor in your population.
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Ah yes, loads of books on genetics for peas. Just a starting place for observations. I prefer colors of blooms and end up selecting for them. I favor pink over white. Im wondering if pollinators mind the color? I release leaf cutter beas around the garden evey few years and provide nesting boxes too. I had peas collected for seed with two different colors inside the same dry pod. Im intrigued with the color and flavor but didn’t dive into genetics yet. I still remember Mendel pea genetics from high school. So much more has been discovered since.
I prefer pink flowers over white, too. But I’ll forgive a plant its white flowers if the peas and pods are delicious. Have you ever seen any other colors of pea flowers? I’ve seen pictures of a peach-colored pea flower online before, and I’d love to add a phenotype like that to my landrace.
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Peach color, im intrigued with what variety they would be and from where? Are they edible pod or regular peas?
I don’t remember. I think it was a thread in the Open Source Planting Breeding forum. Maybe you can find the picture in a thread about peas there?
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Oh, help me find what you saw. Im taking your reccomend but Im not proficient with online research. Hope that is ok?
It’s probably somewhere in one of the threads in this board.
Probably from 2023 or earlier, although it could have been 2024. I’m sorry, I’m disinclined to search through all the topics myself – that could take hours. But you haven’t read them before, and there’s tons of interesting information there, so that may be a fun search for you! 
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I bought this variety this year that has peachy coloured flowers. They haven’t sprouted yet so I haven’t seen the flowers for myself.
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Pretty! 
Thank you! Salmon/Peach are similar in the color palette 
it just depends on the perspective of the artist tint or tone…but nature is wildly diverse and beautiful. Im hoping there is a correlation of color to pollinators attraction to the flowers. So lots of colors keeps pollinators happy and visiting more flowers.
