How much do you know about peas?

•Peas can withstand temperatures below freezing....a fact PeapodZ™ knows very well!
•Peas were considered poisonous during the Roman empire,
•Peas can be grown in containers, along walls, trained up corn and sunflower stalks, and even in hanging baskets.
•There are wrinkled peas, smooth types, yellow peas, black-eyed peas, cream peas, bushing and climbing varieties.
•Peas are one of the world's oldest crops.
•There are 450 to 500 peas in a can.
•There are 5 to 7 peas per pod.
•There are 4 to 5 pods per vine.
•There are 575,000 seeds are planted per acre.
•Peas found by archaeologists on the Thai-Burmese border have been carbon-dated to 9750 BC.
•Peas are thought to have originated in Middle Asia and Ethiopia.
•The oldest pea ever found was nearly 3,000 years old and discovered on the border of Burma and Thailand.
•In the time of Elizabeth I (1533-1603), peas were imported from Holland and considered a great delicacy because they were so expensive.
•Gregor Johann Mendel (1822-1884) worked with peas in laying the foundation of the modern science of genetics.

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