Garden Sugar Snap Pea
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Beans & Peas

Sugar Snap Pea

Pisum sativum var. macrocarpon

🌱Matures60–70 days
☀️SunFull sun in spring; partial shade if late
📏Spacing2 in apart along trellis
💧WaterConsistent moisture
🔁Life cycleAnnual (cool-season)

About

Crisp edible-pod peas eaten whole. Sweet, snappy, and great fresh off the vine.

Growing

Direct-sow early — peas tolerate frost. Need a trellis 4–6 ft tall. Done by early summer heat.

Harvest

Pick when pods are plump but still bright green. Pick daily for best quality.

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