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Dear Friends and Gardeners: June 7, 2010

Dear Dee and Mary Ann and Gardening Friends Everywhere,

Do you know how long it takes to shell eight cups of peas? I do! I can tell you from my own experience that it takes about an hour, and that’s an hour working steadily at it with no breaks. That’s a lot of peas and my fingers were sore afterward.

People often ask me what I do with all of those peas. Well, mostly I give them away to other