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How to grow 'minji' the amazing green peas

Peas are classified as legumes and a "founder crop" domesticated in the Fertile Crescent about 11,000 years ago according to online research publications.

They are a type of legume native to the Middle East, specifically to the area around what is now Turkey and Iraq.

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