Lima-size Garden Pea
This year, I planted snow peas and Claxton garden peas in the same bed. All of the snow peas were snow peas (flat, thin, pointed pods), and the garden peas were ordinary peas--except for one Claxton plant.
This one oddball garden pea had its usual white blossoms, but produced only three pods. Each of those pods contains very few peas, but each pea seems (from the outside of the pod) to be huge--the size of Lima beans.
I don't think this is from crossing with the snow peas, since all three of the pods on this one plant are doing the same thing, and no pods on any other Claxton pea plants have looked like this. My plan is to allow them to fully mature, and dry on the vine. Next year I will plant those peas to see if this is a mutant strain. If so, then perhaps back-crossing to the Claxton might yield a stable variety with huge peas and an acceptable productivity.
Maybe you'll see them in your supermarket in 2024.
Bob
