Peas that come up early can survive freezes...
But green beans cannot. They have to be planted after danger of frost has passed, and after the ground has warmed up some.
I think voles or mice ate a lot of the pea seeds I planted in February. Or they rotted in the ground. I got most of the empty spots filled in with seeds I had left over, but still need to buy another packet. Might even plant a couple rows somewhere else.
I had frozen peas to eat most of last winter but could've eaten a lot more. And I still have close to a gallon of green beans in the freezer I need to eat by August or so.
One bag of the green beans (rattlesnake beans, actually) were blanched before I froze them. The other bag I froze unblanched, just rinsed, trimmed and froze. They were just as good quality-wise in my opinion. I won't blanch beans or peas again before freezing, same as with the whole tomatoes I freeze.
And it rained like heck for an hour or so around noon today. I bet an inch fell.
