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Thu, Jun 14, 12 at 23:49
| my daughter picked and ate our one mature sugar snap pea today and she loved it. i can see about 6-8 more flowers/pods forming. but when can i expect a nice harvest? i have about 5 plants/vines growing. they're about 5 feet tall and were planted about 2 months ago. |
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- Posted by rayinpenn 6 (RayMills@ThePrudentGardener.com) on Fri, Jun 15, 12 at 9:13
| we have been harvesting our sugar snap peas, planted in mid march for weeks now. In fact the plants probably close to 50 are starting to look spent. I must say you must have put them in late. Hopefully your harvest will besoon or the heat will do them in. |
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| With only 5 plants you won't get many at all. Sorry. Best guess - 20-30 pods. Production all depends on the weather and the specific growing conditions the individual gardener provides. As already mentioned, yours are very late for your zone and at 5' tall should have already been producing for some time so the conditions they are growing in has some sort of issues. Peas are one of the crops that require so many plants (and take up so much room in the garden) to produce a sufficient harvest that many gardeners pass on growing them. Dave |
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| 5 vines isn't going to give you a large harvest. Snap peas usually produce over a couple of weeks at the longest, then shut down in hot weather. You'll probably have to save up a couple days picking to get a family meal's worth. |
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