Sugar snap peas - a good variety to try?

[Gemmalaveen]

I LOVE munching away at sugar snap peas so I have decided to make space for one more container to grow them in this year. I have never grown them before and would be most grateful for any handy hints or recommendations on your favourite varieties to grow.

I grew peas last year but gave them a miss this year because the yield was so low and my space is limited.

Thanks!

[Alison]

I'm currently harvesting loads of Norli in the polytunnel from a January sowing and they're a very tasty dwarf variety. Outide on the plot I grow Golden Sweet Mange Tout which are a lovely and very attractive tall type and seem to crop over quite a long time. My mum has grown them in a tub and got quite a reasonble harvest by tying them into a wigwam which she was using for support.

[King Carrot]

I'm currently harvesting loads of Norli in the polytunnel from a January sowing and they're a very tasty dwarf variety. Outide on the plot I grow Golden Sweet Mange Tout which are a lovely and very attractive tall type and seem to crop over quite a long time. My mum has grown them in a tub and got quite a reasonble harvest by tying them into a wigwam which she was using for support.

Snap

I'm also growing Kelveldon Wonder and Oscar in the Tunnel and more Kelveldon Wonder and Norli outside. Sugar snap, Magnum Bonum, Irish Green Pea and Carouby de Massane to come.

[oldie]

I tried Delliket and Sugar Anne last year. Having them again this year as we all loved them and the crop was huge. Also trying Norli mangetout this year.

[Flummery]

Sugar Snap, Sugar Ann and Sugar Bon are snap peas I've grown and enjoyed. The fist one is tall but the other 2 are shorter. Some of the others are mangetout - you still eat them all but they don't swell up the same.

[Gemmalaveen]

Thanks for the suggestions. Personally I prefer the ones that swell, as opposed to mangetout. I will order seeds this evening.

[pipscariad]

I now have a packet of Sugar Bon winging their way to me, thanks to Flum's suggestion! I too love Sugar Snaps (mangetout don't cut it for me either, that snappy, juicy crunch of snap peas wins every time. Oo, I'm salivating now!).

I planted a row of sugar snaps yesterday (Wilko's own), but they grow quite tall, so a dwarf variety sounds just what I'm looking for. (I ordered my Sugar Bon from Seeds by post btw Gemmalaveen, no P & P charge and they usually come really quickly).

[Jono]

I sow these in containers, very close together (about 4cm). Aside from a few twigs stuck in at angles, they hold themselves up and grow really well. I use multi-purpose compost for the first six inches of the container; this seems to get me good germination.

Watch out for snails though. They've decimated my first batch this year.

[Hillwalker]

I've got to stop reading this forum. Just when I thought, "right that's it, I'm not planting anything else," this thread appears.

[Newton]

Snap

I'm also growing Kelveldon Wonder and Oscar in the Tunnel and more Kelveldon Wonder and Norli outside. Sugar snap, Magnum Bonum, Irish Green Pea and Carouby de Massane to come.

Hey kc. You should change your name to prince pea........that is a real pea appreciation you have going on.......I love them too and will now plant more thanks to your post.

I had my first pod of the year yesterday from a neighbour who overwintered his early crop....delicious.....

[SarahStrawberry]

I'm growing Sugar Anne this year all in the polytunnel. I tie string between two of the metal arches every couple of inches and they happily climb up