Your favourite sugar peapod cultivar?

[snoozy]

I'm putting together my seed order...what's your favourite peapod? (Remember I'm in the chilly, soggy northwest, so if you love a cultivar because it produces well for you in Georgia or Texas, that won't work here...)

And what really is the difference between peas, peapods, sugar snaps...??

[jwal10]

Peas you shell, pea pods are flat, you eat in stir fry and have a very small pea, sugar snaps are thicker pods, very tender and juicy. The peas Can be shelled, we don't. We like them pod and all. Cascadia sugar snap is our favorite pea. We don't eat shell peas at all anymore. We are on the east slope of the Coast range, we get more rain than anywhere in Oregon....James

[siletz]

We're in Western Oregon as well. Peas grow very well here as they enjoy the cool weather of our spring and fall. I've got my peas in the garden up about 3" now. I'm already thinking about yummy stir fry with fresh snow peas in it.

We've grown both the snow pea type and the snap pea type. We like the snow peas better as they seem more tender than the rounder snap peas. We don't shell peas either, as it's one more step we can avoid. We've been growing Oregon Sugar Pod II for several years now and have had good harvests from them each year.

[oregon woodsmok]

Well, not wet, but it's cold here with short growing season.

I had a beautiful heavy crop of excellent quality by planting Mammoth Melting Sugar from Stover. I think I got them at Big R. In a generous size plastic bag so you could see that you'd be getting more than 6 seeds, like the paper envelopes like to do.

Bonus: the poultry and rabbits were crazy about the plants. I ate the snow peas and the critters got the plants after the harvest was done. Also, the pea pods have frozen well.

[goatlady]

I have been planting and growin Dwarf Sugar Grey snow peas from Oregon to SD to Arkansas. LOVE that cultivar as the pea pods stay small, 2" to 3", and very tender all season. I usually get at least 10# of peas from trellised rows 4' long and 6" wide, planted on both sides of the trellis at 2 ends of one of my raided beds. I plant a set in spring and another set in the fall for the same amount of harvest to freeze for the winter. I save the seed from the late spring batch for fall planting and the next spring.

[snoozy]

Golly. All different ones. Any other votes? Even two votes for one would win the pea-election...

[vicki in NW OH]

Cascadia sugar snap pea and Blizzard snow pea.

[Paquebot]

Just planted some Cascadia an hour or so ago. That's a snap pea which is picked when the pod is full and firm. Did well last year and expected to do as well this year.

Martin

[snoozy]

Well, then I guess Cascadia wins the popularity contest by a nose...

Thanks for your input, all!

[woodsy]

Oregon giant gets my vote , a so called snow pea, large tender edible pods. 4-5".

[frankva]

I have Super Sugar Snap and Sugar Ann. They work, I can get them in bulk.

[cdehne]

My preference in MD is Sugar Ann. It is a bush variety as opposed to a vining variety. The bush take muchless room,and does not require anything to climb up. They perform well for us. I catch my kids standing out in the garden just picking and eating them!

Chris