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If you want to increase your crops production you can add nitrogen-fixing agents that help your pea plants roots convert extra nitrogen into plant food for itself. An eat all pea which produces heavy crops of pods with an average of seven peas to a pod. Make sure you plant your peas and Aliums far enough away from each other so your pea plants won't be affected.ĭo Sugar Snap plants give nitrogen to your soil? Sugar Snap plants take nitrogen from the air and convert it into food for themselves. What should you not grow near Sugar Snap peas? Onions, Chives and Garlic can stunt the growth of your Sugar Snap peas. You can combat these pests by sprinkling a light dusting of wood ash around the base of your Sugar Snap plant. They can leave holes in your leaves and eating the peas. Garden peas are the traditional variety, where the pea must be removed from the pod before eating. What is eating my Sugar Snap peas? If you begin to notice that your pea plants and seedlings are being eaten, then the usual culprits are cabbage maggots or cutworms. Peas come into two main types: garden peas and snap peas. Great eaten raw, stir-fried, or cooked in casseroles and stews. For an extended harvest sow 23 times, 710 days apart. Garden Hint: Provide strong support for 6 vines. Provide canes for support, plants can be self-supporting if grown in a. The original snap peaand a snap to grow, prepare and love Delicious, fleshy 3' round pods are ready for fresh eating and make-it-snappy cookingsimply stir-fry, steam, or sautée. The vines can grow to more than 6’ or more and will need staking or trellising. Early sowings benefit from frost protection. Unlike many pea varieties, Sugar Snaps will bear well in both hot and cold weather, and therefore has a longer growing season. (Both the peas and the pods are sweet!) The green pods are about 3' long, 1/2' across, and bear over a long picking period as long as you keep harvesting. Sugar snap peas are similar to snow peas in that you can eat the pods, but unlike snow peas, form full-sized peas and aren’t flat. Theyll 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.

Sugar snap pea seedlings