If you have kids and want them to eat their vegetables, there's nothing better than sugar snap peas. They are easy to grow, kid-pleasingly sweet, and probably the first thing you can harvest, other than radishes.
I planted my sugar snap peas the day after New Year and they are now over two feet tall. (I'm in Northern California - Zone 9)
While I like English, or shelling peas, I prefer to grow sugar snaps in my garden and leave the shelling peas to the vendors at our local farmers market.
It's really just a matter of practicality for me. Since I grow most of my vegetables in containers in a greenhouse, space is always at a premium. With sugar snap peas, you eat both the peas and the pods. In consequence, you get a higher yield per square foot with sugar snap peas than with shelling peas. (Both produce about 2 lbs of pods per 10 foot row when planted according to instructions - but you eat all of the sugar snaps)
Many of my readers in cooler climates will be planting in the next few weeks. Give some thought to adding sugar snap peas. I think you'll like them.
I was interested in learning how to Pollinate peas inside the greenhouse -
Instead of using a vibrating brush, I think using a fan to blow some "wind" inside the greenhouse is better, faster and more efficient.
Posted by: Dilli | 11/26/2012 at 09:16 AM