Peas - Snap, Snow and Pod

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Name	Description	$

Pea - Snow
Carouby de Mausanne Tall	An heirloom French mangtout or snow pea, up to 8 inches long. Climbs to around 5 ft, must be trellised. Excellent yields!	$3.95 60 seeds
Ho Lan Dau Short	Harvest these peas when they reach just 2 inches long for gourmet eating. Entirely stringless, they sport dark green pods and arise very, very heavily on vigorous plants 20 inches high. The plants have a semi-bush habit that simplifies harvesting and means less work tying up the vines during the growing season. They also show great resistance to fusarium wilt.	$3.95 60 seeds
Pea - Snap
Super Sugar Snap Tall	Grown and selected for over six years, this selection gives a sweeter pea and a longer harvest than the original commercial source. Grows to 6 ft. Selected for 6 years.	$3.95 60 seeds
Cascadia Short	This enation-resistant snap pea has been grown by us for 6 years The short, 32 inch vines yield an abundance of dark green 3 1/2 inch pods that are thick, juicy, and very sweet. Also resistant to powdery mildew.	$3.95 60 seeds
Delikett Short	This improved variety produces a high yield of 3½-4" pods with excellent flavour, all on a compact plant 24" tall. This dwarf Snap Pea has a compact plant habit with a tremendous number of dark green pods. Pods are carried in clusters of two and can be harvested over a longer period of time. Stringless at edible stage with excellent taste. Grown for 5 years.	$3.95 60 seeds
Pea - English or Pod or Shelling
Alderman Tall	A heritage tall maincrop or late pea that is very popular as few varieties crop so well and are so easy to grow. The long, thick pods often contain 11 large peas of excellent flavour. Height 5 ft to 6 ft tall so you will need some strong supporting canes/twigs or netting frame. This variety produces a heavy crop of large pods on very robust plants giving a useful prolonged picking season. Grown for 5 years	$3.95 60 seeds
Telephone Tall	This is a well known heirloom variety that has stood the test of time. A tall vine that produces mid-season, here we recommend it as an early-maincrop pea. For us it grows to a good 6 feet tall, though others have written in to say that it gets taller, up to 9 or even 10 ft! Although various sub-strains have been developed over the years, its hasn't really changed from the description of 'Carter's Telephone Pea' in Vilmorin's famous book of 1885 on vegetable gardening. It has heavy yields of large pods with sweet, non-starchy peas inside. We find that the pods always swell up a bit before the peas fill out, so don't be fooled into picking too early! This year they were ready to eat starting in mid-July, on over the summer, which is pretty good given what a cold year it has been. Wrinkled seed, stays sweet longer in pods - but don't sow in cold wet conditions. Grown and selected for 8 years.	$3.95 60 seeds
Greenshaft Short	One of the most popular varieties. Heavy crops of long pointed pods produced in pairs containing about 10 peas of wonderful flavour. Height 24”.Grown and selected for 5 years	$3.95 60 seeds
Ambassador Short	Semi-leafless type with dark green blunt pods that have good tolerance to bad weather. Excellent resistance to powdery mildew and fusarium wilt. Up to 7 or 9 peas per pod. Height 30”. Grown and selected for 5 years	$3.95 60 seeds
Twinkle Short	Ideal for succession growing and will crop in 12-13 weeks after planting for regular picking. Plants are self supporting and have excellent wilt resistance. Height 24". Grown and selected for 5 years	$3.95 60 seeds
Oskar Very short	Oskar is a very dwarf plant to about 1ft tall that makes extremely sweet peas right at the start of the season. It has nice dark healthy foliage and bears a decent number of pods. You'll want to grow some other peas as well, for it comes so early that it finishes by the start of summer, but it is great for delicious peas before any others crop. Very early, very short, very sweet. Grown and selected for 3 years	$3.95 60 seeds

Peas

A Tip for Doubling your Pea yield in the same area of land

When growing tall peas you will notice that the peas start to form at around the 3 ft. plus mark.

Planting a row of dwarf peas outside the line of the tall peas will produce peas from ground level up to the full height of the pea line.

On the farm we put in a 6 ft. trellis for the peas, and plant on line of tall peas each side of the trellis. Out side the line of tall pea seed we plant another row on each side of dwarf peas - this gives us nearly double the yield in the same space....

A wall of Super Sugar Snap with Cascadia at the bottom.

A wall of Carouby de Mausanne

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