Tomatoville® Gardening Forums


Notices

General information and discussion about cultivating beans, peas, peanuts, clover and vetch.

Reply
 
Thread Tools Display Modes
Old February 12, 2007   #1
Adenn1
Tomatovillian™
 
Adenn1's Avatar
 
Join Date: Feb 2006
Location: Philly
Posts: 559
Default Snow peas...

My dear wife loves snow peas and last summer asked me to grow some...I had a small amount of space that I tried some. It was some dwarf bush variety from Burpee--seeds I found on the rack at HD. They did not do well at all

This year I would like to find a climbing/vining type...I have a small space again...but have a trellis I could grow them on.

Any experiences or suggestions welcomed...
__________________
Mark
Adenn1 is offline   Reply With Quote
Old February 13, 2007   #2
landarc
Tomatovillian™
 
landarc's Avatar
 
Join Date: Feb 2006
Location: Left Coasty
Posts: 964
Default

I have found that snow peas are best when grown in slighly cooler weather. The best snow peas I have had are from coastal growers in Marin and Sonoma County. Cooler morning and evening temperatures, with some heat during the day. They respond well to lighter soil textures and adequate moisture. I have also found that bean and pea innoculant helps with getting them going from seed. My dad grew excellent peas and he believed in giving them a big shot of nitrogen early on in the season to kick start them.
__________________
Lets see...$10 for Worth and $5 for Fusion, man. Tomatoes are expensive!

Bob
landarc is offline   Reply With Quote
Old February 14, 2007   #3
Adenn1
Tomatovillian™
 
Adenn1's Avatar
 
Join Date: Feb 2006
Location: Philly
Posts: 559
Default

Thanks Bob for the advice...I've come across a few things now that mentioned they like cooler weather. Will just have to try them and see how Mother Nature treats them. I do have some innoculant stored from last summer...so will use it.
__________________
Mark
Adenn1 is offline   Reply With Quote
Old February 14, 2007   #4
feldon30
Tomatovillian™
 
feldon30's Avatar
 
Join Date: May 2006
Location: Rock Hill, SC
Posts: 5,346
Default

I started my sweet peas & snow peas about 3 weeks ago. Even tho it's been 30's at night and 40's during the day quite a bit (With a rare few days in the 60's), they seem to be loving it. I know the back of the seed packet says to plant them several weeks BEFORE your last 10% frost date.

Some gardening books simply say "Plant snow and sugar peas as soon as the ground can be worked", in other words when enough snow has melted and the ground is no longer a hard, frozen crust.

Carrots, Parsnips, English Peas (snow, snap), Cabbage, Broccoli, Cauliflower, Brussels Sprouts love cool weather. Parsnips actually improve in flavor substantially from a few freezes. In Houston, people have been known to bring container-grown parsnips into a walk in freezer for a day or two to encourage this flavor.
__________________
[SIZE="3"]I've relaunched my gardening website -- [B]TheUnconventionalTomato.com[/B][/SIZE] *

[I][SIZE="1"]*I'm not allowed to post weblinks so you'll have to copy-paste it manually.[/SIZE][/I]
feldon30 is offline   Reply With Quote
Old February 14, 2007   #5
natural
Tomatovillian™
 
natural's Avatar
 
Join Date: Feb 2006
Location: North GA
Posts: 530
Default

A friend of mine grew 3 colors of snow peas last year. Green, Yellow, and purple. They looked great in the stir fry.
Anyone else grown the different color ones?

Bill
natural is offline   Reply With Quote
Old February 14, 2007   #6
dcarch
Tomatovillian™
 
dcarch's Avatar
 
Join Date: Jun 2006
Location: NY
Posts: 2,618
Default

In additon to the pea pods, young snow pea shoots are great stir fried or in salad.

dcarch
__________________
tomatomatomatomatomatomatomatomatomatomatomatomato matomato
tomatomatomatomatomatomatomatomatomatomatomatomato matomato
tomatomatomatomatomatomatomatomatomatomatomatomato matomato
dcarch is offline   Reply With Quote
Old February 14, 2007   #7
natural
Tomatovillian™
 
natural's Avatar
 
Join Date: Feb 2006
Location: North GA
Posts: 530
Default

We also like pea shoots. We pick the shoots from our cover crop of winter peas . We sautee them like spinach.
natural is offline   Reply With Quote
Old February 26, 2007   #8
mresseguie
Tomatovillian™
 
mresseguie's Avatar
 
Join Date: Mar 2006
Location: Oregon
Posts: 159
Default

" I do have some innoculant stored from last summer...so will use it."

Adenn1,

I made pretty much the same remark to a horticulturist friend who immediately told me it was useless.. Whatever is in the innoculant has died, and is of no further use. You might want to ask elsewhere about this.

I'm growing sugar snaps and snow peas this year. My snaps are already in the ground, but busy-ness and laziness have kept me from planting the snow peas.

Michael in OR.
__________________
Learning to speak tomato!
Got compost?
mresseguie is offline   Reply With Quote
Old February 26, 2007   #9
shelleybean
Tomatovillian™
 
shelleybean's Avatar
 
Join Date: Feb 2006
Location: Virginia Beach
Posts: 2,648
Default

That's probably true unless you've just bought the inoculant. It has an expiration date printed on it and it's usually only good for one year. See if you can find a date on the package.
__________________
Michele
shelleybean is offline   Reply With Quote
Old February 26, 2007   #10
Adenn1
Tomatovillian™
 
Adenn1's Avatar
 
Join Date: Feb 2006
Location: Philly
Posts: 559
Default

Thanks Michael and Michele for the information about the expiration date on the innoculant. I tried to find it the other day and could not...so may have to buy new anyway!
__________________
Mark
Adenn1 is offline   Reply With Quote
Reply

Thread Tools
Display Modes

Posting Rules
You may not post new threads
You may not post replies
You may not post attachments
You may not edit your posts

BB code is On
Smilies are On
[IMG] code is On
HTML code is Off

Forum Jump


All times are GMT -4. The time now is 01:56 PM.


★ Tomatoville® is a registered trademark of Commerce Holdings, LLC ★ All Content ©2022 Commerce Holdings, LLC ★