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[MontyJ]

How do you process your snow peas for the freezer, Steve? Do you snap the ends and string them?

 

[Collector]

Steve,Great looking row of peas. I digit...

 

[digitS']

Snow peas, MontyJ?

Just like the snap peas, break the ends off, pull to see if there's a string, rinse, blanch - into the bags & freeze. Mostly snap peas.

Shell peas . . . . I don't think we do many shell peas. Who knows? The brain stops after the first cup and a half . . .

digitSteve

 

[ninnymary]

Steve, I love sugar snap peas and have tried growing them with no success. You would think they would do well in my cool climate. Are there any "tricks" that you do for them? Do they produce enough to warrant the time and space for them? Is your trellis made out of string/twine?

Thanks
Mary

 

[catjac1975]

I get tons of snap peas from a 80 foot row. I plant them thick, only grow the tall, soak the seeds first. What happens that you cannot grow them? Here is a photo of them earlier in the season. Now they are producing like crazy. My 2 older grandsons love picking them and eating them fresh in the garden. They said it tastes like healthy candy.
http://www.theeasygarden.com/forum/viewtopic.php?pid=348212#p348212

Steve, I love sugar snap peas and have tried growing them with no success. You would think they would do well in my cool climate. Are there any "tricks" that you do for them? Do they produce enough to warrant the time and space for them? Is your trellis made out of string/twine?

Thanks
Mary

 

[digitS']

Mary,

I wonder if you can get away with sowing the seed about the first of January . . ? Yes, one might think that they'd do well there but if I remember correctly, they were developed by an Oregon-trained horticulturalist who grew up in Utah and went to work for an Idaho seed company.

They might behave more like a soup pea. Eastern WA is the center of the US dry pea and lentil growing, WSU tells us

Steve

 

[ninnymary]

Cat and Steve, I actually get the 6-packs of sugar snap peas. They just don't grow. I believe I get them in the early spring.

Mary

 

[thistlebloom]

Cat and Steve, I actually get the 6-packs of sugar snap peas. They just don't grow. I believe I get them in the early spring.

Mary

Mary, maybe they just don't like the transplanting. You should direct sow them, I know you can grow peas! It is, as they say, EASY PEASY.

 

[catjac1975]

Do they not germinate? Or not thrive? If it's germination it is probably the seed. They do like it cool to start.

Cat and Steve, I actually get the 6-packs of sugar snap peas. They just don't grow. I believe I get them in the early spring.

Mary

 

[catjac1975]

Gorgeous peas!!!!!!!

https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-lbs4NOiNSbM/UdMqRoyC1fI/AAAAAAAACIw/lgiX1oAsuJw/s400/DSC00683.JPG

First sowing of peas have just started to produce. I had just about enuf snap peas to fill a shirt pocket, yesterday. There won't be a whole lot this year altho' the vines have grown well.

I never know what the peas will do. There's a 2nd planting but they are shorter and hastening to flower. I might be able to get both sowings harvested and out in time to plant more green beans! Those are pole bean teepees behind the pea trellis. Believe it or not, there is a row of tomatoes between the peas & beans. Think I'd better get something shorter in this bed soon as the tomato plants aren't getting their full share of the sunlight.

Steve