Peas and Tomatoes Growing on One Fence

I have never heard anyone do this before, but after the first time I tried this, I knew I would do this every time I planted a garden.

Fresh eatable-pod peas can be picked and eaten every day. Eat them raw as part of a vegetable plate (or on its own) served with a yogurt dip. They can be eaten as a Eatable pod peas are excellent additions to freeze well. I like to take a few peas and put them in several different freezer bags and then add other vegetables throughout the gardening season so that by the end of the season I have several packages of stir fry. They sell well at farmers’ market as well.

If you’ve never eaten a fresh tomato right off (I mean, a fresh one, picked that same minute that you pop it into your mouth) you’ve never eaten a real tomato. A store-bought tomato, even from farmers’ market, doesn’t have the depth of flavor that one picked right off the vine does.

Tomatoes are not only eaten fresh but can be eaten in a wide variety of dishes. Peel them to use as whole canned tomatoes (dip them in hot boiling water prior to peeling and the skins will slip right off) or strain them in a food strainer to make sauces and juice (time saver: strain the juice off first and use what’s left to cook down into sauces.)

Before I can eat them though, I have to get them planted. Since both peas and…