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snap pea Snap Pea

Also known as sugar snap peas (en) mangetout (en)

A variety of pea

How to sow snap pea: Direct seed outdoors, thin to 12cm apart when seedlings are 3cm high

Sun requirement for snap pea: Plant in Full Sun

Snap peas are a cultivar group of edible-podded peas that have round pods instead of flat pods (like snow peas). They were developed in 1952 by cross-breeding snow pea with a mutant shell pea plant. The pods are edible and contain 3-8 peas. They are harvested when they are bright green, young, and tender. Snap peas are a cool weather crop and require trellising to support their climbing vines.

18
plantings
9
harvests
3
seed packets

Growing snap peas

Annual

living and reproducing in a single year or less

Median lifespan

28 weeks

First harvest expected

6 weeks after planting

Last harvest expected

6 weeks after planting

Height

150cm

Spread

20cm

Row Spacing

12cm

Grown for

pod harvested 9 times

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by black_hound,

I have been concerned about my pea planting because we had some unseasonably cold weather after I planted them. But I see a few sprouts from the Cascadia and Mammoth Melting snap peas. The Green Arrow shelling peas have no sprouts so I replanted them today.

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