Peas Porridge Cold!

A couple days ago we had our first freeze. It wasn't a very hard one but it did mottle and damage my pea plants. I don't know what I'm doing wrong but these things just aren't producing for me. Maybe I'll have to try earlier next spring with a different variety. My crop last spring hardly did anything. Anyway since the plants were already a bit damaged, I decided to let Zoey go ahead and pick the peas that had developed. She gets REALLY fixated on the garden once I allow her to pick something. So every day since she asks if she can pick peas or she'll go out there and check out the plants and insist there are peas ready. I've given up on trying to restrain her since I'm pretty sure the plants won't really make much more before too many freezes start happening and kill the plants entirely. She has been quite diligent about going out and picking every single pod she can find, bringing them in and then shelling them into one of her stacking cups and asking me to keep them in the fridge so she can eat them later.  Amazingly enough she does eat them! and Ian too! I can't get them to eat peas in any other way. I guess that's another benefit of home gardening, if your kids feel like they have helped create that food, they're more willing to eat it. In total we've only had about 1/4 cup of peas, so not much to speak of but enough for a 3 year old to be thrilled.