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Sugar Snap Peas

£6.99

You’ll eat all the pods straight from your garden!
These plants are so easy to grow and will produce loads of sugar snap pea pods. They’ll grow to approximately 1.5m tall and will need some kind of support to climb (we often grow them up a chicken wire fence or trellis.) You can plant them fairly close together, at 10cm so they don’t take up a lot of space. They are very easy to grow from plug plants, just follow the advice in the growing guide provided with the plants.

Number of plants: 10 plug plants

In the kitchen: Sweet, crunchy, and delicious raw or try steaming them lightly or stir-frying with other vegetables.

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Planting Advice: Plant plugs relatively closely together and provide supports for the peas to climb – chicken wire propped up between two bamboo stakes or twiggy pea sticks

Harvesting: Pods will start to form soon after the plant begins flowering. You can expect them to crop for several weeks between June/July and September, depending on when you plant them.

*Transplants suitable for organic growing.

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A sunny, sheltered site

Peas grow best in a sunny, well-drained spot. They will tolerate a little light shade. They prefer to grow in moist, fertile soil in a sheltered location away from strong winds. Avoid growing peas in very wet soils.

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Perfect for beds, pots & grow bags

Peas are easy to grow in any combination of raised beds, traditional veg plots or medium sized pots/grow bags.

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How far apart?

Peas can be grown quite close together, approximately 10cm between plants. If you are growing in pots, you can plant approx 5-6 pea plants to a medium 30cm diameter pot.

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Keep them well watered

Try not to let the soil dry out and you will have much better success with peas. If you notice any discolouration in the leaves, that is an indication that they need more water to enable them to access nutrients.

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Give them something to climb

Peas put out tendrils, wrapping them around supports as they climb.

Garden Peas & Sugarsnap Peas – ours are dwarf varieties, growing to approx 50cm. Some 50cm high twiggy sticks prodded into the earth will provide good support. Or a 50cm high length of chicken wire, supported at each end by bamboo canes.

Mangetout Peas – ours are taller varieties, often climbing to 2m. A trellis or 2m length of chicken wire supported by bamboo canes at either end will provide them with support. You could also grow them up a wigwam.

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When to harvest

Once the flowers appear, keep an eye out for new pods forming. Pick mange tout peas when they reach a medium size for the best crunch and flavour. Sugar snap peas and garden peas will start out as flat pods, and then will swell as the peas inside start to form. Pick them once the pods are nice and round and quite firm. You can eat sugarsnaps whole, but pod garden peas first.

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Pinch out mange tout when they get too tall

Mange tout will keep on growing. Once they reach head height, pinch off the top tip. This will prevent the plant from growing up any further, and will encourage side shoots instead.

Slugs & Snails

You’ll quickly see the tell tale signs of nibbled leaves and slime trails if slugs and snails are eating your plants. Set beer traps, put a barrier of natural slug deterrent (broken egg shells, grit etc) around the base of plants, do a dusk slug patrol and keep the plot as free from slug-friendly hiding places as possible. Read more slug tactics 

Powdery mildew

Towards the end of the season you may notice that the foliage takes on a whitish coating – this fungal disease is normal at this time and indicates the end of the pea plant’s harvesting time.

Mice & Birds

Mice and birds quite often nibble at young plants – if they are a problem in your garden, it’s a good idea to protect young plants with netting.

Discoloured leaves

Most discolouration comes from lack of water or nutrients in the soil. We’d recommend watering thoroughly and applying a mulch. You may also find discolouration if peas are exposed to strong winds. Young plants can be covered with a cloche to protect them.

Symptom Checker

Holes in leaves & slime trails = Slugs & snails

Whitish coating on leaves = Powdery mildew

Yellow/discoloured leaves = Lack of water/nutrients

Plants been eaten = Mice/birds

Storage Tips

The fresher the better! Pick your peas when you plan to eat them. They will keep for a few days in the fridge, and you can freeze them too. For garden peas, most people pod the, blanche the peas and then freeze them. But you can shortcut and simply freeze them without blanching.

Ways to cook

We really love peas served with a little knob of butter and plenty of freshly chopped mint. Try making a pea pesto if you have a glut, or pea soup is lovely too. Mange tout and sugarsnaps are great for stir fries.

Top tips

  • Add fresh garden peas, raw, to summer salads
  • Don’t harvest sugar snaps/mange tout too late, as they become a bit chewy and stringy.
  • Add sugar snaps to stir fries

Do I need to sign for them?
All our plug plant orders are dispatched with an overnight courier* to mainland UK and do not need to be signed for when they are delivered, but will be left somewhere safe. When placing your order, please let us know where you would like the vegetable plants left if you are not in when the courier delivers.

We will keep you posted
You will receive an email approximately a week before your order is dispatched and another on the day your plug plants are packed and leave us so you know to expect and prepare for their arrival.

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