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What is your favorite snow pea?
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ridgetop01 z5 CNY (
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Thu, Feb 28, 13 at 9:34
| I love snow peas, but hate the strings. What is your favorite stringless (or virtually so) snow pea? |
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RE: What is your favorite snow pea?
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| I'm not sure it's the best flavored snow pea possible, but Golden Sweet has been a real workhorse for me, very vigorous, productive and tasty - and I don't recall any strings. ~emmers |
RE: What is your favorite snow pea?
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| Oregon Giant get my vote: 
Raybo |
RE: What is your favorite snow pea?
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| My favorite is any that I can get a good harvest from before the heat of spring does them in with powdery mildew. Mine are producing like crazy right now. I can't recall the name, but the package was one of the Stover brand at home depot. Also, I don't ever have a problem with the strings either. Unless they're overgrown pods. Otherwise, when I pick them at their peak(when the PEAS are not fully formed in the pod and the pod isn't bulging), the strings are so nonexistent that they're edible. Kevin |
RE: What is your favorite snow pea?
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| Here in zone 6B in MA I would add Sugar Sprint, Super Sugar Snap, and Cascadia to Oregon Giant. Last season I tried starting the plants in four foot lengths of plastic rain gutters and had higher germination and good later growth. I will try the method again this season. Put an old towel or other rag in the gutter before filling with soil and the plants will slide out later slick as a whistle.Picking the peas sooner might help with your string problem. |
RE: What is your favorite snow pea?
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| I grow a lot of Cascadia Snap peas. |
RE: What is your favorite snow pea?
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- Posted by mrclint z10SoCal Valley (My Page) on
Sun, Mar 3, 13 at 14:28
| I'm growing the Super Sugar Snap from Botanical Interests. They are over 6' tall and pumping out a lot of pods. The taste has been excellent, but I do not care much for the strings. Like the OP, I would like to know of a sugar snap variety that lacks strings on fully formed pods. I'm growing sugar snaps as an alternative to the shelling type peas such as Wando. Why grow sugar snaps and harvest pods with immature/tiny peas in them? Wouldn't it make more sense to just grow snow peas instead? |
RE: What is your favorite snow pea?
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| Oregan Giant too (three?) Slow going at first. Once it starts producing, it continues through frost and drought. It DOES have strings which can be easily pulled off. |
RE: What is your favorite snow pea?
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| Hands down it is Mammoth Melting! That thing kept going through most of summer! |
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