58 days from direct-sowing.
What fun to grow snow peas right on the deck or balcony! Little SnowPea Purple is a magnificently beautiful plant as well as a delicious veggie, and you will be hard pressed to decide which you love more: the two-tone purple blooms or the crunchy-sweet pods!
This compact vining plant reaches just 16 to 20 inches high in containers, climbing a trellis, stringed pole, or other support. The flowers are breathtaking, with purple-veined lavender on some petals and midnight violet on others, for a stunning two-tone effect. They arise very freely, and keep coming even after the first pods have set, so you get flowers and fruit all together!
In the garden, Little SnowPea Purple may reach 2 feet high, but wherever you grow this pea, it delivers big yields of crunchy, crisp, flattish green pods. Eat the whole pod -- the flavor is amazing!
Easy to grow, snow peas love cold weather, so plant as soon as the soil can be worked in the spring. Direct-sow 1 to 2 inches apart and 1 to 1½ inches deep. Peas are also ideal as a fall crop started in late summer. To conserve space and simplify harvesting, sow in double rows with a trellis between rows. Pkt is 2 ounces (at least 200 seeds), which sows 10 to 12 feet of row.
These shrubby or vining plants bear white flowers that are followed by pods containing the edible, smooth or wrinkled Peas. Harvest them in the early morning when the pods are fully swollen. They should be filled out, but not bulging, and the seeds should not be hard. Snow Peas and Sugar Peas are grown for their edible, soft pods. Harvest them when young, succulent, and still flat. Pick all types regularly to keep the plants producing pods
Superior Germination Through Superior Science
First of all, we have humidity- and temperature-controlled storage, and we never treat any of our seeds with chemicals or pesticides. Nor do we ever sell GMO's (genetically modified seeds), so you always know the products you're buying from us are natural as well as safe for you and the environment.
Superior Standards - University Inspected
Hand Packed By Experienced Technicians
Park Seed has been handling and packing vegetable and flower seeds for 145 years, a history that has given us a great understanding of how each variety should be cared for and maintained throughout every step of theprocess, from collection to shipping.
When packing our seeds, the majority are actually done by hand (with extreme care!), and we often over-pack them, so you're receiving more than the stated quantity.
The Park Seed Gold Standard
Heirloom Seeds are open-pollinated -- they are not hybrids. You can gather and save heirloom seed from year to year and they will grow true to type every year, so they can be passed down through generations. To be considered an heirloom, a variety would have to be at least from the 1940's and 3 generations old (many varieties are much older -- some 100 years or more!).
Hybrid seed are the product of cross-pollination between 2 different parent plants, resulting in a new plant/seed that is different from the parents. Unlike Heirloom seed, hybrid seed need to be re-purchased new every year (and not saved). They usually will not grow true to type if you save them, but will revert to one of the parents they were crossed with and most likely look/taste different in some way.
58 days from direct-sowing.
What fun to grow snow peas right on the deck or balcony! Little SnowPea Purple is a magnificently beautiful plant as well as a delicious veggie, and you will be hard pressed to decide which you love more: the two-tone purple blooms or the crunchy-sweet pods!
This compact vining plant reaches just 16 to 20 inches high in containers, climbing a trellis, stringed pole, or other support. The flowers are breathtaking, with purple-veined lavender on some petals and midnight violet on others, for a stunning two-tone effect. They arise very freely, and keep coming even after the first pods have set, so you get flowers and fruit all together!
In the garden, Little SnowPea Purple may reach 2 feet high, but wherever you grow this pea, it delivers big yields of crunchy, crisp, flattish green pods. Eat the whole pod -- the flavor is amazing!
Easy to grow, snow peas love cold weather, so plant as soon as the soil can be worked in the spring. Direct-sow 1 to 2 inches apart and 1 to 1½ inches deep. Peas are also ideal as a fall crop started in late summer. To conserve space and simplify harvesting, sow in double rows with a trellis between rows. Pkt is 2 ounces (at least 200 seeds), which sows 10 to 12 feet of row.
These shrubby or vining plants bear white flowers that are followed by pods containing the edible, smooth or wrinkled Peas. Harvest them in the early morning when the pods are fully swollen. They should be filled out, but not bulging, and the seeds should not be hard. Snow Peas and Sugar Peas are grown for their edible, soft pods. Harvest them when young, succulent, and still flat. Pick all types regularly to keep the plants producing pods
Superior Germination Through Superior Science
First of all, we have humidity- and temperature-controlled storage, and we never treat any of our seeds with chemicals or pesticides. Nor do we ever sell GMO's (genetically modified seeds), so you always know the products you're buying from us are natural as well as safe for you and the environment.
Superior Standards - University Inspected
Hand Packed By Experienced Technicians
Park Seed has been handling and packing vegetable and flower seeds for 145 years, a history that has given us a great understanding of how each variety should be cared for and maintained throughout every step of theprocess, from collection to shipping.
When packing our seeds, the majority are actually done by hand (with extreme care!), and we often over-pack them, so you're receiving more than the stated quantity.
The Park Seed Gold Standard
Heirloom Seeds are open-pollinated -- they are not hybrids. You can gather and save heirloom seed from year to year and they will grow true to type every year, so they can be passed down through generations. To be considered an heirloom, a variety would have to be at least from the 1940's and 3 generations old (many varieties are much older -- some 100 years or more!).
Hybrid seed are the product of cross-pollination between 2 different parent plants, resulting in a new plant/seed that is different from the parents. Unlike Heirloom seed, hybrid seed need to be re-purchased new every year (and not saved). They usually will not grow true to type if you save them, but will revert to one of the parents they were crossed with and most likely look/taste different in some way.