TheEasyGarden - Gardening Forum

I can have them till late Spring, then they begin to poop out and mildew. I'll replace them with either pole beans or cukes when the weather warms. I could have had a couple more months of harvest had I planted in October but I was still in cardiac rehab at that time so I didn't have the energy.

so lucky wrote:

You know, I planted snap peas in late summer, had poor germination, so planted green arrow in the bare spots. The peas eventually came up, and bloomed pretty well, for a long period of time, but I never got a single pea off those two kinds. You would think something would have pollinated just by accident! But, no. Eventually they froze. End of story.

Was it possible that it was too hot for those pea flowers to produce peas? That's the only way I can see the flowers not producing.

Hope this helps!

Snap pea vines have to be pretty big before they start producing much. They will bloom for several weeks before the blooms finally begin to set. On the other hand they will produce better than most peas in warm weather. In Oklahoma I planted in early Spring, even when there was still some frost. I used sugar snap there (the original variety) and was able to have them into quite warm weather.

hoodat wrote:

Snap pea vines have to be pretty big before they start producing much. They will bloom for several weeks before the blooms finally begin to set. On the other hand they will produce better than most peas in warm weather. In Oklahoma I planted in early Spring, even when there was still some frost. I used sugar snap there (the original variety) and was able to have them into quite warm weather.

I will just have to believe that mine were on the verge of producing, when a freeze got them. I didn't record the first big freeze date, so will give the peas the benefit of the doubt.