Growing peas requires some work. Actually, it requires a lot of work but it's so worth it!
Peas are easy to plant because they are so big. unlike lettuce or carrot seeds, you can actually hold them, they don't blow away in the wind, and they're easy to handle.
The size of the 'seeds' is the easy part.
I plant my peas in small hills. The seeds are planted close together in a double row. I only leave about an inch and a half between the peas when I put them in the ground, and I leave about 5 inches between the double rows.
Before planting, I put the stakes in for my trellis that way I don't have to disturb the seeds.
I use the metal green stakes for a trellis, and I use just regular chicken wire.
Peas germinate rather quickly and hey can be planted as early in the season as you can work the ground. Frost won't hurt them.
Once the plants bloom and the peas start to form, keep a close eye on them because you'll want to pick the peas as soon as they are ready. Don't wait. Pick when ready.
Peas will keep producing, but in my experience, you only get one or two good pickings, and then it slows way down.
I blanch and freeze the peas from the good pickings, and he ones that grow later, I use them in soup.
With good pickings, I mean when they are abundant, and you can pick enough to freeze.
Shelling the peas takes a long time. I usually do it while I'm in conference calls. Two birds, one stone :)