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Snow peas not only taste good they are good for you and they are really easy to grow since they take up hardly any room at all. They are inexpensive to grow and expensive to buy. These little beauties are great because you eat the pod and pea which are sweet, no shucking here!
If you plant then a week apart you will be able to harvest them successively and you can sow them up to July as they adapt to higher temperatures than regular peas. They should be eaten or cooked as soon as you harvest since they lose their sugar content quickly. You can even freeze them successfully. I just spread them out on cookie sheets, stick them into my freezer and about 30 minutes or so later take the sheets out and shake the Snow Peas into a large freezer bag and put them away for use later. I do not thaw them out when I want to cook them. I basically use them for Chinese cooking and just take a handful of frozen Snow Peas and throw them into my wok.
Basically no garden should be without them. You can throw some in among your flowers and just give them something to climb up and there you are a wonderful food source to cook with. Snow Peas are vining plants and they need something to climb on and that makes them manageable and easy to pick.
Pick a good sunny spot to plant them in. They prefer as much sun as possible and if you have a fence area in a good sunny spot that is at least 5 feet high then this is the place to plant them. Plant as early as you can since they can endure 40 degree temperatures and plant your seeds 1 inch deep and plant them about 4 inches apart and in about 60 days you will be eating these sweet little gems.
Snow Peas are susceptible to root rot so once they emerge just hoe a trench about 12 to 18 inches from the base of them and then when you water, water into the trench and allow the water to seep down to their roots.
The Snow Pea has been around forever it seems as it is one of the oldest vegetables as recorded as grown on the Thai-Burma border in 9759 BC and they are still popular.
Put some into your garden if you have not tried them. You will be glad you did and remember, do not eat them all in the garden because they are delicious raw.
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