![]() Depending on your climate, it may be beneficial to mulch around your growing snow peas to keep the soil cool during the hot weather of summer. Apply liberal applications of worm juice and crop rotate after a couple of years. Planting snow peas is done by placing the seeds 1 to 1-1/2 inches (2.5 to 3.5 cm.) deep and 1 inch (2.5 cm.) apart, with 18 to 24 inches (46 to 61 cm.) between rows. ‘Oregon Sugar Pod II,’ also known as ‘Oregon Sugarpod II’ and ‘Oregon Sugar Pod 2,’ or commonly Oregon Sugar Pod Pea, is a cultivar of sugar snap ( Pisum sativum var. The most important nutrient is phosphorus the nitrogen and potassium usually required by other plants is less important with these plants although sugar snap will need more nitrogen than snow peas. Snow peas should be at least 7 or 8cm apart. Sugar snaps can be planted a little closer together than snow peas, but not closer than 4cm. Frost can make the flowers sterile so make sure you sow to avoid this problem. A max of 25 and min of 5 degrees Celsius is best. ![]() These plants thrive in a cool growing environment temperatures above 30 degrees Celsius greatly lower yields. Don’t forget the wonderful aesthetic results you can get with a beautiful patch of pea flowers. All legumes help put nitrogen back into the soil so don’t limit your pea and bean plantings to your veg bed but sow them all around the garden. Choose a spot in your garden that gets full sun, at. Snow and sugar snap peas have much less protein than their other leguminous relatives, but they help reduce heart disease risk, are an excellent source of iron and vitamin C (although vit C content is reduced greatly by cooking) and are very good for your immune system. Shelling peas, snow peas, and snap peas are all cool season crops that require the same growing conditions. NSW’s Agriculture department recommend Mammoth Melting (for edible leaf harvesting and flowers but requires trellising), Sugar Bon dwarf (is a sugar snap pea and the most productive in commercial use) and Sugar Ann dwarf (another sugar snap and very sweet but can suffer from powdery mildew where Sugar Bon will not). ![]() You’ve never tasted a snow pea unless you have picked it yourself.Įden Seeds recommend these varieties – Oregon (flat edible bush type, heavy bearing and disease resistant), Roi De Carouby (very pretty purple flowers and real climber) and Spanish Skyscraper (sweet fine flavoured pea, very productive with white flowers). These delicious peas truly deserve to be grown at home, as their sugars convert to starches once picked, so half of the sugars are gone within one hour of picking. The snow pea is among the oldest know cultivated vegetables with evidence showing its cultivation in the region now known as the Thai-Burma border 12,000 years ago! The sugar snap is a baby in comparison, invented by an American chap named Calvin Lamborn in the 60’s by crossing the snow pea with the regular garden pea. ![]()
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