Peas are just about my favourite vegetable and so far we have 5.5 Kg sitting in the freezer with another couple of rows to start harvesting from next week onwards. These we picked, shelled, blanched and froze in about half an hour with about 2 hours to spare over commercial ones, and I can see no mention of blanching in the news item which probably explains why shop bought peas taste winey and horrible as far as I'm concerned.
Also it's rather telling that the pea varieties, apart from Twinkle, are not the ones you find in seed catalogues, because of course flavour is way down the list of desirable attributes.
I really pity the 90% who have probably never tasted freshly picked Hurst Greenshaft or Douce Provence.
Edit ... I just checked my Dobies catalogue and they do sell one of the commercial varieties, Ibis, which funnily enough they DON'T recommend for freezing.
