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Picton Sno Pea
Picton Sno Pea
A variety of snow pea
How to sow Picton sno pea: Direct seed outdoors, thin to 10cm
Sun requirement for Picton sno pea: Plant in Full Sun
A very old snow pea growing over 1.2 m, with bi-colour purple flowers, round spotty purple seeds, and really sweet, prolific fat pods. Needs a 1.2 m trellis. Reputed to grow all year round in Christchurch. Gifted by a Picton member in 1997.
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Picton sno pea facts
Lifespan
Crop cycle
Max altitude
Optimal light
What are growing degree days?
A plant grows with warmth, not with days. A growing degree day is one day's worth of useful warmth: how many degrees the day's average temperature is above the lowest temperature the crop grows at. Add them up from planting and you know how far along the crop is, whatever the calendar says.
Say that lowest temperature is 10°C. A day averaging 17°C gives 7 growing degree days. A day averaging 8°C gives none, as it is too cold for the crop to grow. That is why the same lettuce takes about 50 days in a summer and 90 in an autumn: it needs the same total warmth either way.
For Picton sno pea, the FAO EcoCrop database gives a lowest growing temperature of 4°C and a shortest growing cycle of 60 days at its best temperature, about 780 growing degree days to a first harvest.
Where you've told us where your garden is, we use this and the weather there to predict when your Picton sno pea will be ready to harvest. We don't use it for how long a plant lives or when it finishes: we go by what members have logged for that.
Plant Picton sno peas with
kale
coriander
oat
french breakfast radish
red d'anjou pear
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Time to harvest
If sown now, expect a first harvest in about 60 to 140 days.
From the growing cycle in the FAO EcoCrop database, which is the same wherever it is grown.
Ecological requirements
Data from the FAO EcoCrop database for Pisum sativum L.
| Family / Taxonomy | Magnoliopsida Rosidae Fabales Leguminosae |
|---|---|
| Killing temperature | growth: 0 °C, rest: -2 °C |
| Life form | herb |
| Life span | annual |
| Habit | prostrate/procumbent/semi-erect, climber/scrambler/scadent |
| Optimal soil depth | medium (50-150 cm) |
| Optimal soil texture | heavy, medium, light |
| Optimal soil fertility | moderate |
| Optimal soil drainage | well (dry spells) |
| Optimal soil salinity | low (<4 dS/m) |
| Photoperiod | short day (<12 hours), neutral day (12-14 hours) |
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