OK, I got the peas for my 5 chickens last winter. I figured I could sprout them one dish full at a time so that my hard-working hens could have a bite of something green. But, the Christmas season was a busy time, and so I set the bag aside until I was ready to mess with it. So, instead of me giving them peas sprouts, the chickens mid-winter treat was the carcass of the turkey to pick over.... AFTER the bones had been boiled for soup, of course!
Alas, during that time our two male cats decided to pee on the unopened bag of peas. I don't know why: perhaps they were marking their territory?
There was no poop: only pee. Perhaps Oggie is right and cats are evil. At any rate, by the time I was ready to mess with them, urine had trickles through the porous bag clear to the ground and MY didn't it stink!
They had probably been peeing on them for a solid month, ever since I bought them!
So, I had one of my teens drag the bag out to the back deck. If it got rained on I figured it would sprout unless the peas were dead, and then I would use the sprouted peas in the garden as a green manure.
I was not surprised that the peas did not sprout. I figured they were all poisoned and all dead.
They have been sitting out there for MONTHS, under the rain and under the sun, and NOW the peas are sprouting????? My garden has been planned out and planted and it is bearing! How DARE the fifty pounds of peas sprout now?????
I no longer have ROOM for planting a green manure and 5 chickens, no matter how dedicated, cannot eat FIFTY pounds of sprouted peas all at once!!!!!!!!!!!
Then again, before the cats used them as a latrine, those peas were of very good quality. I really do not WANT to throw them away, I would rather use them!
The chickens can eat some of the peas, no problem. I do have a corner of the garden that I might be able to plant peas on. That will likely use up 10 pounds of peas, so I only have FOURTY pounds to figure out!!!!!!!!
The question is, how?
Any ideas?
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