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Snow Pea planting

grown by Johann7 in Seedling Trays · Shorewood, WI

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Failed
  1. Sown 2026-02-19
  2. First harvest 2026-06-12 expected

Harvest months

Spring
March
April
May
Summer
June
July
August, usually harvesting
Autumn
September
October
November
Winter
December
January
February

Highlighted months are when this crop is usually harvested here.

Planted

9 months ago 2026-02-19

Progress

Failed this planting failed

Degree days

302 of about 780 needed

Quantity

6 seeds

Grown in

full sun

Rating

3 of 5

Grown from

Seed

Weather in Shorewood, WI New

Daily high and low
Too cold for snow pea so farFrom Feb 19 to May 07, 39 of 78 days had a high inside the best range of 10–24°C. The low reached the killing temperature of 0°C on 36 days. The highs were below the best range on 35 days and above the best range on 4 days. The weather was too cold on 57 days (lows below 4°C).
2 °C frost lineDies at 0 °CGrows at 4–30°Grows best 10–24°
Daily rainfall
Rain
233 mm
Hottest day
25.8°C
Coldest night
-14.3°C
Soil temperature
6.4°C
Days in its best range
39 of 78
Days
78

Weather data by Open-Meteo.com (CC BY 4.0). Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information. The weather is modelled for the area around the garden, not measured in it, and runs a few days behind. The totals, charts and expected weather are our adaptation of that data.

Notes

Started 6 snow pea seedling pots; 2x seeds per fiber pot, no thinning; 1 seed each old from Territorial and new from Seed Savers; 60F, grow lights supplementing sunlight for 16hrs light

Transplanted outside too early (got large inside), taken out by freezing storm and wind

Photos

20260225_142335
20260225_142335
by Johann7

Observations

Nothing noticed yet. Note when it flowers, fruits, wilts or falls ill.

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    Planted

Frost danger has passed for this snow pea planting

The latest a frost has come in past years is 13 May, 186 days ago. The snow pea planting went in on 19 Feb, 72 days before the usual last frost (2 May). 49 nights so far were at or below 2 °C, the coldest -14.3 °C.

This snow pea planting against the frost season

  • Usual frost danger
  • Possible: as early or late as it has come
  • Planting so far
Coldest night
-14.3 °C
16.3 °C below the 2 °C frost danger line
Usual last frost
2 May
has come as late as 13 May
Next frost danger starts
24 Oct
as early as 12 Oct, -22 days from now
Frost-free season
174 days
in a typical year

Experimental: this feature is new and might be flaky. These dates are estimates from 25 km weather-model data, not readings from a station at your garden, so a cold spot can be colder. They may be wrong, so check your national weather service and ask local growers before relying on them.

Weather data by Open-Meteo.com (CC BY 4.0)

Harvests

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Crop

Photo of snow pea

Snow Pea

Pisum sativum var. saccharatum

a variety of Pea

  • 35 plantings
  • 9 harvests
  • An annual, living about 77 days
  • First harvest about 73 days after planting
  • Last harvest about 95 days after planting
  • Usually grown in sun

World neighbours

Other snow pea plantings at the same latitude.