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Early Pea Seeds

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Useful gardening infomation

Pea is a frost-hardy, cool-season vegetable that can be grown throughout most of the United States, wherever a cool season of sufficient duration exists. For gardening purposes, peas may be classified as garden peas (English peas), snap peas and snow peas (sugar peas). Garden pea varieties have smooth or wrinkled seeds. The smooth-seeded varieties tend to have more starch than the wrinkled-seeded varieties.
The wrinkled-seeded varieties are generally sweeter and usually preferred for home use. The smooth-seeded types are used more often to produce ripe seeds that are used like dry beans and to make split-pea soup. Snap peas have been developed from garden peas to have low-fiber pods that can be snapped and eaten along with the immature peas inside. Snow peas are meant to be harvested as flat, tender pods before the peas inside develop at all. The Southern pea (cowpea) is an entirely different warm-season vegetable that is planted and grown in the same manner as beans.

Informative articles found on the web:

How to grow Organic Peas
Early Peas Recipes

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Seeds

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4BUR50 Burpee's Super Sugar Snap ( From Burpee Seed Co. )
This incredible pea is even better than the famous Sugar Snap.
64 days. The most versatile peas- wonderful raw, steamed or stir-fried. Yields are higher because you eat them pod and all. Thick, full sized snap peas are sweetest. It's sweeter, earlier, more productive, and has excellent disease resistance. Try it in salads or appetizers. Super Sugar Snap is the best snap pea ever. Like the original, these plants get 5-6' tall and need a trellis or fence. Direct-sow in early spring, again in midsummer for a fall crop. Outstanding winter crop in Zones 9-11. Our seeds are not treated. Sun.

  .75 oz. pack $1.99

4BUR51 Burpee's Snowbird ( From Burpee Seed Co. )
Very early, dwarf (18 in.) Edible-podded sugar pea.
Dwarf erect plants 18 in. tall produce amazing numbers of 3 in. pods in groups of 2-3. Ready to pick 58 days after seed is sown. Culinary Hint! Eat entire pods; pick when peas are just forming. Prepare like snap beans. The sweet pods are delicious stir-fried or cooked just a few minutes so that they remain crisp.

  1 oz. pack $1.79

VEG050 Progress No. 9
60 days. Early, wilt-resistant vines grow 14-16 inches tall, very prolific. The seeds are apple green and cream colored, about 1400 per pound. Fresh peas dark green, large oval, good quality, delicious flavor. Used for eating fresh, canning, freezing and market.

  $2.15 per pack ( 1/2 cup pack of seeds is enough to plant about 20 ft. of row )

VUD016 Little Marvel
62 days. A heavy yielder. Vines about 15 inches tall, sturdy, dark green with heavy foliage. Seed medium green, about 1800 per pound. The peas are dark green, round, tender, sweet and fine flavor. Unsurpassed by any others in its class. Good for freezing and canning.

  $2.15 per 35g pack ( plants about 15 feet of row )

VEG053 Alaska
56 days. Light green, straight, blunt pods. Peas are small, light green, low in sugar. Tolerant to Fusarium Wilt. Good canning variety.

  $2.15 per pack ( 1/2 cup pack of seeds is enough to plant about 20 ft. of row )

VEG068 Early Frosty
64days. Frosty produces a prolific yield of tightly packed 3.5" pods with medium-size peas. A distict improvement over Little Marvel because of uniformity and higher number of peas per pod. It has a greater number of pods per plant as well. Plants are about 28" tall and have many double pods resulting in almost twice the yield of Little Marvel. Uniform dark green shelled peas are tender and sweet, both for fresh and frozen uses. The best early peas for home garden planting.

  $2.15 per pack ( 1/2 cup pack of seeds is enough to plant about 20 ft. of row )

Other varieties available

VEG031 Sugar Sprint Sugar Pea
One of the earliest sugar peas, ready in only 60 days. Healthy vines 18" tall provide large yeilds of 3 inch sweet pods. An improved vaiety of Sugan Ann.

  $2.15 per pack ( 1/2 cup pack of seeds is enough to plant about 20 ft. of row )

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