The garden pea was a good choice of experimental organism because:

When it was discovered it was probably smaller than the size of a common garden pea.

She popped some delicious garden peas into her mouth.

The garden pea has been around since 4800BC, according to archaelogists.

She gave him a garden pea with a red flower and a black bean from a Cherokee Indian friend.

The currants - red ones the size of garden peas - were not so safe.

I used garden peas, you know, and all my experiments are condensed here for you.

Apparently not used in cooking; when eaten green the flavour reminiscent of fresh garden peas.

They are a relatively new vegetable, a cross between snow peas and regular garden peas developed in the early 1980's.

They get their fresh garden peas out of the garden, in Italy!