Recommendation for Sugar Snap Peas

[ninnymary]

It's time for me to try growing sugar snap peas. I LOVE them and eat them almost daily. I just buy them at the store and I don't know what kind they are.

Any recommendations? Also, I have a trellis that is 4'. Is this tall enough?

Thanks
Mary

 

[digitS']

Well, it's complicated, Mary. You get me answering and it always is, unnecessarily so.

You have named 1 variety. This June, my Super Sugar Snaps reached a good 5'.

I've never grown snap peas in the fall until this year. I've got Sugar Daddy.

The fall snow peas always grow half as tall as they do in the spring. It may be the heat during August that stunts them. I hope Sugar Daddy stands up better.

It has been in my garden in the spring. Here's what High Mowing Seed has to say about the height, "24-30” vines need little support."

Yes, but they need some support so if I set that up why not go to 5' and grow Super Sugar Snaps?

This time, I just figured those rambunctious vines would not have enough time before the cold weather arrives. I'd rather have snap peas than snow peas so ... I'm trying little Sugar Daddy.

My recommendation? You may have a little heat right now to slow them down so a 4' trellis may be enough for Super Sugar Snaps. Can you see how you might retrofit the trellis if they grow to their usual height? They are really nice but I don't want you saying, "that darn Steve. These vines are all a mess!"

Steve

 

[ninnymary]

Steve, I should have mentioned that my trellis is one of those concrete wire reinforcement panel from Home Depot. It's 4 x 7 and I had it standing up but it was too narrow and I didn't want to buy 2. So, I laid it on it's side and trimmed the end. Other than my tomatoes and zuchinni, my stuff doesn't seem to grow as big as some of you. If by some miracle they grow tall, I figured it would only be 2 feet of tangle mess.

I will be planting the seed close together. Does that mean they each have to have a climbing support? By that I mean do they each have to have a metal part of the grid? I can imagine a little pea plant looking up and thinking that next metal part is 4 inches high, how do I get up there? Ha Do I have to tie string up and down the grid of the trellis?

Mary

 

[digitS']

I don't think so, Mary.

The string trellis my pea vines are on have about 10" to reach at a time. They are little pea vines that thought they could. ... no mountain they can't climb!

Steve

 

[Hal]

I'd suggest Opal Creek or Sugar Magnolia.
Opal Creek is yellow podded and Sugar Magnolia is purple podded.

 

[ninnymary]

Thanks Hal, I'll look for them at our local nurseries. Don't know if they carry things that are too unusual.

Mary

 

[Ridgerunner]

What's the general growing requirements for snap peas? I'd think I'm too hot but maybe with an early maturing variety. That probably means bush, not climbing. Any recommendations for an early maturing one?

 

[thistlebloom]

What's the general growing requirements for snap peas? I'd think I'm too hot but maybe with an early maturing variety. That probably means bush, not climbing. Any recommendations for an early maturing one?

Ridge I just checked out Hals suggestions for Opal Creek and Sweet Magnolia and Opal Creek looks like it does well in warm regions. I read a blog entry about people who grew it in Mexico and gave it high praise. Fedco and Richters carry it.

 

[Ridgerunner]

Thanks, I'll do some research in it. I've never grown them but that may be my "experiment" next year. I try to do something different every year.

 

[Hal]

Ridge I just checked out Hals suggestions for Opal Creek and Sweet Magnolia and Opal Creek looks like it does well in warm regions. I read a blog entry about people who grew it in Mexico and gave it high praise. Fedco and Richters carry it.

Adaptive Seeds and Peace Seeds also carry them.