pepe said:

Greenfeast peas are the standard winter pea and they can be purchased cheaply from fodder stores because hobby farmers use them as a cover crop. Growers Pride are selling for 99cents per packet here.
You can plant summer peas – mainly the sugar snap kind.

I love edable (sp?) pod peas – snow peas, sugar snaps etc. I checked the Diggers catalogue and they give them the same growing period as podded peas. I find this unusual. Snow peas (although the name may be relevant) are an Asian green, so I would expect grow in slightly hotter temps than our winters.

Guess I’ll wander down to the local hardware and have a look-ee-see on the back of a couple of packets.