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| Duration: Annual | Native to: Mediterranean basin | Edibility: pods, peas | Status in Yard: Garden in winter and early spring |
I grew sugar snap peas in Bed 1 in early 2017 for their pods, which I ate raw and shared with friends. They grew quickly and were pretty productive. I grew snow peas in the same plot and harvested them together.
There is disagreement between different websites as to which common name goes with which subspecies name. Some call snow peas macrocarpon and some call them saccharatum. Whatever the variety name, this page is about sugar snap peas.
On February 28, 2017, I found some of the first pods forming.
On March 7, 2017, the snap pea plants were starting to fill the available space.
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On March 11, 2017, I harvested a hand full of snap pea pods.
On March 13, 2017, the combined snow pea and sugar snap pea plants were filling the available space. Most of the pods I was able to harvest were sugar snap peas.
On March 24, 2017, I went out to harvest some snow pea and sugar pea pods, and I discovered that some of the pea plants had powdery mildew on them. The flowers were getting sparce anyway, so I removed all the plants and harvested the healthy looking pods, which amounted to a few pounds. I threw most of the vines in the trash to reduce the chance of spreading the powdery mildew. 
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