Unintentional Peas

A fine crop of peas has sprung up from the pea straw that I am using to mulch one of my vegetable beds.  As is so often the case, these unintentional peas are growing much more strongly than the peas I planted and nurtured early in the spring.

Unsupported by a trellis, the pea plants are rising up from the soil supported only by each other.  I love the determined way those delicate tendrils wind and curl and twist around each other.