Magnolia Blossom Snap Pea

From Hudson Valley Seed Company. Purchased in 2023.

Description and growing instructions below from Hudson Valley Seeds.

Tasty green pods amidst a tangle of tendrils.

One of Dr. Alan Kapuler's superb snap peas. Green, very sweet snap peas have excellent flavor and crunch, and the plants produce loads of edible hyper-tendrils as well! A staff favorite in our 2018 trials. Grows to be about 8' tall, and shows good cold-hardiness. The beautiful, bi-color blooms are very attractive.

GROWING INSTRUCTIONS.

Peas are fun, fast, and can be sown at the first sign of spring. The pea shoots and climbing tendril-festooned vines keep you company throughout the many spring garden tasks--and provide beautiful flowers and delicious snappy crunchy bursts of summer's-finally-here.

Peas love cool weather, so sow them the first or second week of April. You can probably get away with plantings up to early May, but after this you're best off waiting until mid-summer (for a fall crop) or next spring.

Soak peas overnight, inoculate them, and then sow them in rows (or double rows, or even more) about one or two inches apart. Sow them deeply--between one and two inches below the surface. While you're waiting for the first tendrils to emerge through the moist spring soil (what joy!), be sure to provide a trellis up which the young plants will quickly climb. You can use string and 2x2 posts spaced every ten feet, or you can use chicken wire, or old bed frames salvaged from a dilapidating Catskills resort.