Pea Snow Oregon Sugar Pod Organic Seed
Pisum - sativum

An heirloom, flat-podded snow pea -Oregon Sugar Pod II has tasty, stringless pods for stir-fry and salads. The short 28" vines can be grown as mounds or trellised. They produce a huge number of 4" pods that should be harvested and eaten when the pods are flat, before the seeds form inside. Don't worry about planting more than you can eat. Oregon Sugar Pod is an excellent freezer variety, so you can preserve your excess crop. This wonderful variety has disease resistance against mildew, pea virus, and common wilt. This packet plants: One 15-foot row.

When to plant outside: RECOMMENDED. Sow in early spring, as soon as the soil can be worked. Soil temperatures must be above 40 degrees. A second crop may be planted in mid-summer for fall harvest. In USDA zone 8 or warmer, plant in fall or winter for winter harvest. (In any climate, you can stagger 3 plantings one week apart to spread out the harvest period. You can also plant 2 or 3 varieties at the same time with different maturity dates.)

When to start inside: Not recommended.

Special Sowing & Germination Instructions: Pre-soak seed for 24 hours before planting. Ideally, seedbeds should be prepared in fall; raised beds are recommended, because they will raise the early spring soil temperature and increase drainage. Treating seed with an inoculant (Rhizobia bacteria) may increase yields, since bacteria in the soil may not yet be active during the cool weather of early spring.