Sugar snap peas tips?

[SlugLobber]

On a whim I bought a pack (you now how it is when you see all those lovely seed packets in the GC!!) and now have 24 sown. Turns out the little blighters are madferit and have won the germination race between them, climbing beans, cukes and courgettes! So, now it's official and I have babies, I realise that having never grown them I need to acquire knowledge soonest!

Any tips? My plan was to manage them a la climbing beans but then I wondered if I should treat them more like peas or sweet peas. Soooo, how do you grow yours??? Wigwam? In a pipe? Against a trellis?

[Scoot]

I shall watch this thread with interest as i grew them for the first time last year and didn't really get a good crop from them. What i did get though were lovely to eat straight off the plant, whole.

[gringo]

I'm watching with interest too - my only time ended with some little bug eating them from the inside out.

[Lumpy]

I have Sugar Ann in small wall baskets, 4 in each and I allowing them to scramble over some longish trigs I shoved in to give them some support.

I also have quite a few plants, all growing happily outside in 2 long wall baskets. They are at the front and I have Little Gem in the middle and radish at the back.

So..........unless they are mullered by the weather they will all drape down instead of grow up.

It does help if you pick the pods when they are quite small and very regularly to keep them coming and I will pinch off the tips when they dangle long enough.

[bario1]

Just treat them like peas, they'll happily scramble up netting or chicken wire. Pick them when the pods are about 3" long and still flattish and they're delicious! These are the only kind of peas I bother to grow these days.

[Gillykat]

I attempted some last year and got them as 'babies' from Homebase. Grew them on, potted them up, hardened them off and within 24hrs of planting them out around a wigwam the blasted racing pigeons next door had snaffled the lot! It was my fault though because I planted them into an open bed with no protective chicken wire fence around them

Tempted to try again this year (with protection until they get bigger ....just need to find some space to put them as my plot is filling up already

[vixylix]

I grow them like peas - so in my case up netting - they'll keep climbing forever if you don't pinch them out at the top!

Sugar snap are great as you can have them as thin mangetout, fat sugar snaps or full grown peas. They are my FAVOURITE thing to eat straight from the garden

[SlugLobber]

Brilliant, thanks. We have plenty of chicken wire (and chickens!), so will put them on the inside of the fruit cage, as we have a lot of wood pigeons and parakeets. Had another 2 pop through overnight. Exciting!

[MarkPelican]

Have a quick look on the packet to see how tall they grow, I just grow them like peas and the ones I usually grow (Oregon Sugar Pod) don't grow very tall.

Make sure you pick them frequently otherwise they'll grow tough easily.