We love peas! One of the easiest and most rewarding garden veggies to grow. Picking baskets of peas every other day is the best part about spring here. I only grew Sugar Daddy or Sugar Snap and then expanded types last year when my single 4’ wide trellis became 8. We grow them on all trellises and remove once melons and squash start to take over in June. I throw extras all around to help soil health and try to cover crop with Field peas where I plant winter squash. Next year, I will be more proactive about cover cropping my raised beds. We tried lots of new varieties last year, but mixed them up and could only guess at what was what. They all have their own trellis this year. I think our favorites were some sort of sugar snap, mammoth melting and Oregon Sugar, but we will confirm this year and then go back to mixing them up because it’s more fun. We are growing:
Super sugar snap
Sugar snap
Sugar daddy
Mammoth
Blush
Sugar Ann
Oregon sugar
Oregon giant
Sugar bon in some 1g’s to see if they really are dwarf and bushy.
Blush came up first and are approaching 1’ while the rest are half that size. Please share what peas you love including shelling.