Pea : Sugarsnap : Sugar Ann
Vegetable
- Cropping: 75 days to harvest
- Ideal for: Children
Description
A fine quality Sugarsnap with round, fleshy, pale green, sweet tasting, succulent pods.
Very early and heavy cropping.
Ideal raw or in stir fries.
Suitable for freezing.
Eat immature when stringless but less sweet or remove string when fully developed.
Sow in succession for a long season of picking.
Sowing Instructions
| Sowing time: | Early to mid-spring zones 2-7, early to mid-fall zones 8-10. Can be sown every 10 days for succession. |
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| Sowing depth: | 25mm (1in) |
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Sow in flat bottomed drills 5cm (1in) deep, 15cm (6in) wide spacing the seeds roughly 5cm (2in) apart.
Allow 90cm (36in) between rows.
Growing Instructions
Protect from birds and pea moth attack when flowering using fine netting.
Grow in weed free soil as peas are not easy to weed when growing.
Support with twiggy sticks, wire or netting.
Water thoroughly, especially when flowers setting, for maximum yields.
Aftercare Instructions
Ideal for any fertile soil in full sun.
Kitchen Notes
Perfect for stir fries.
