Growing Snow Peas, Planting Snow Peas, When and How to Plant Snow Peas
The Best tips for growing snow peas in your home vegetable garden. Design Your Own Vegetable Garden Layout Using our Free "Vegetable Garden Planner" Software! Learn how to plant, grow, care for and harvest snow peas in your garden. Peas are one of the earliest vegetable crops that can be planted in the spring. How do you know when it is time to plant your snow peas in the garden? Download Free Garden Planning Worksheets, Garden Diary, Zone Chart, Or Planting Guide When to Plant Snow PeasSnow Pea VarietiesEdible podded sugar peas are also known as snow peas. The variety ‘Dwarf Gray Sugar' is ready for harvest in 63 days. It is a low grower of 24 inches high that can be successfully grown without staking. The taller snow peas varieties such as ‘Mammoth Melting Sugar' can be harvested in 72 days and ‘Burpee Sweet Pod' is ripe for the picking in 68 days.  Growing Snow PeasIn cool climates, enrich the soil the autumn before planting. Another requirement for snow peas is providing adequate air circulation to the beneficial nitrogen-fixing bacteria that live on the plants' roots. To ensure a constant air supply, avoid planting in waterlogged areas and do not compress the soil after the crops are planted. Planting Snow PeasHow to Plant Snow Peas Growing Snow Peas Tips--When and How to Plant Snow PeasHarvesting Snow Peas Gather the crops in the cool of the morning rather than the heat of the afternoon sun. Pick the growing snow peas when the plants are very young, just as the peas begin to form. If you miss that stage, you can shell and eat the peas, but the pods will be too tough to be eaten. When harvesting, repeated pickings can be made. Only the lowest growing pods should be harvested from the plant to achieve the best yield. Growing snow peas on a trellis provides the most bountiful harvest of all. Rinse the snow peas in cool water as soon as possible after gathering, and refrigerate in air-tight containers for later use.
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