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Across the garden plots: chrysanthemum leaves, purple sugar peas, goji berries and common purslane, a leafy vegetable that is eaten stir-fried or put into salads.

What’s in season: Often referred to as just “sugar peas,” sugar snap peas are known for their sweet and bright but delicate flavor and great crunch.

What’s in season: Sugar snap peas, a cross between the English pea and the snow pea developed by a plant breeder named Calvin Lamborn in the 1970s, are also referred to as just “sugar peas.”

A magnificent spring dish of creamy, perfectly cooked saffron risotto came tossed with fresh green peas and cuts of crisp sugar peas and broccolini stems.

And sautéed Thai basil shrimp was impressively weighty with six jumbo shrimp and a mass of sugar peas, chunks of zucchini and sweet red onion.