Pea Question

[elanorh]

I discovered today that the deer had eaten the top third of half my row of peas -- I thought I'd just smashed them down while covering to protect from hail. Anyway -- some of the peas are regenerating shoots of new leaves etc. from where they were snipped off by the deer.

I looked in my "Garden Primer" and it says nothing about cutting peas back and getting a second crop --has anyone tried this? My snow peas are starting to die down and if I could cut them off 6 inches off the ground or so and get new peas from them, that would be very cool.

(Both varieties are the tall vining versions - Mr. Big, and Carouby de Maussanne)

[FarmerCathy]

That's interesting. I wouldn't have thought they would have grown back. That would be a nice surprise. Maybe someone has experimented or seen this before. I would cut back a couple of your snow peas and see what happens. It's worth a shot, they'd just die back anyway, so there isn't much to lose trying it.