Today I planted four large pots of Sugar Lace II snap peas. I had peas in these pots last fall. I have found that peas do really well in large pots. I still have seeds left of the Sugar Lace so I will probably plant another pot or two, Not today though. The Sugar Lace are new to me. I have never tried this variety before.

I have decided I will place my Cascadia snap peas in ground, maybe I will do that tomorrow. And I watered the Super Sugar Snap peas I planted last week.

So I am on my way to my veggie garden getting planted and hope they all sprout soon.

I also keep ordering new varieties of squash seed-so I have tons of that too.

Snow Peas:

Raybo

Raybo

Here I am anxiuosly waiting for my peas to sprout.

I watered all my peas including the inground ones. Those early inground ones (Super Sugar Snap) I planted March 21 and I don't see anything sprouting yet. But the pots I planted March 29 and March 30. So they sprouted quickly.

I tried this because I had no room in ground. Found they did great and now I always do pots.

Snow peas. I have four pots.

I'll be interested to see how those Sugar Lace II plants develop. They look so unusual!

I do have peas in ground but the pots are doing best. I do peas in the spring and another crop in the fall. This fall I intend to do pots only, no peas in ground. The pots work so well for me.

Another plus is that I can move the pots to the best location.

I am curious about how packed you plant them. This is only my second year with peas, but you are obviously not following the 1.5 - 2 inch apart spacing rule. How many plants do you have jammed in there? Isn't it difficult to harvest them when they are packed that densely?

I have almost 300 peas up and growing in one long double 16 ft. row - it never occurred to me to plant them in big clusters like that.

This year I will do my fall peas all in pots and should be planting around July 21-23 again.

But the Mammoth Melting Snow Peas I have 4 pots of are not gonna flower really soon as they are a longer to fruit variety than the sugar snaps I have planted.

My only concern is that because the pots flare out, the poles are not very deeply set. I am worried that once the peas grow up them there may be enough wind resistance that a heavy wind will knock them over and rip all of the pea out of the pots. Hopefully the roots will be strong and deep enough to anchor them down.

Norli peas here in back of tomato plants.

Mammoth Melting Snow Peas have only a few blooms.

My peas are finally starting to climb, but we are going through another cool spell.. not supposed to be much above 50 next few days.

Thank you for sharing.

I'll look forward to hearing how you like the taste of the Sugar Lace II when you get to harvest them. They look so interesting. How tall are the plants?

I have eatten some and really I can't taste any difference between them and Super Sugar Snap that I also have. Both taste wonderful.

happy harvesting

This spring I had 10 pots of peas, some of them snaps and some snow. But I have reused some of those (especially the bigger) pots for summer veggies so had 5 pots at the ready. In my garage I do have more pots but I decided that 5 pots of fall peas will be plenty.

Fall planting is always a race.

I should have done spring peas but we went on vacation in April and I thought it was going to get too warm too soon for peas (and it did get hot the end of May but bet they would have loved all the rain in June!). My dad started snow peas at Memorial Day, they got washed out and he replanted though I told him they were a cool-weather crop, now he's got pods! Big "I told you so" from Dad! But his peas are in shade - I'll have to see how some do next year in spot where my Little Leaf and de Bourbonne cukes are now - shaded until 10AM .