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Harvest peas to prolong cropping

Pick peas regularly – ideally daily – to keep plants producing flowers and pods. If you leave them for a few days, the pods will mature and the plants will stop cropping, as they’ve done their job of providing seeds. So keep on picking to keep the pods coming.

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