Snow Peas
I don’t know what it is about trying to grow peas that has me so intrigued. It’s something I’ve never been successful with and yet people tell me it’s easy. Well this is my challenge plant. I will be happy if in five weeks time I’ve managed to harvest one pea pod.
I was going to grow these from scratch but again it just proved more economic in both time and liquid funds to get the seedlings. The only problem being that the only peas that they had were snow peas that I didn’t really want (don’t tell them that!). I would have preferred the normal peas but in a pinch these will do very nicely and I’m sure that if successful they’ll be even nicer.
In French they are called mange-tout which translates to ‘eat it all’ and that’s certainly what you 
can do with a snow pea. Great in stir frys or in my opinion even better raw! It also means that there is very little fussing around with them when serving the peas up. Try them with dip.
The only thing when growing any climbers is that you need to give them something to climb! My solution was to take some old rolled up wire fencing and place it through the middle. You can get quite creative with it as long as they have enough to climb on.
So with the roll of wire in place I’ve filled in the soil around and through it which firmly anchors it in place and then planted the seedlings around it. Bless the little plants they latched onto the wire after only a couple of hours. I’d love to film them and speed it up.
So fingers crossed!
April 15th, 2007 at 6:10 pm
That wire is a great trick for climbers. We’re growing french beans and runner beans in pots and i was wondering how we were going to do it, thanks.
Can you just grow veg all year round, or do you have to wait for the right season like we do. Everything needs planting now and I’m struggling to find the time to do that and work on my back garden at the same time.
April 15th, 2007 at 8:54 pm
I guess we’re pretty lucky here in Queensland because it doesn’t get that cold here so for a lot of these plants they don’t have that much of an issue. These Snow Peas are supposed to be year round ones anyway as long as you can keep the frost off them.