Sugar Snap Peas

I've got them on a trellis in my yard right now and they are starting to fade. You have to plant them real heavy to get a good harvest, and by heavy I mean drop seeds every couple inches along a trellis so they can climb.

I don't think I still have the seed packet to tell you what variety I planted. I just bought Sugar Snap Pea seeds from Jefferson Feed in Metairie and planted them in early October. I'll head down to my shop later and if I find the seed packet, I'll add the name to this post.

ETA: Obviously "Sugar Snap" is the variety. The seed company is Ferry-Morse and it says 70 days to maturity for the first picking.

To see when they can be planted, figure out what Planting Zone you are in and look up Sugar Snaps. I live in N.O. and am in Zone 9 and the farther north you go the lower the zone number.

I've never grown a bush variety of those, but have grown bush snap beans and they are heavy producers, but kind of hard on the back for picking.

That is why I grow many of the beans I grow on trellises, plus it keeps the beans much cleaner. Even bush beans get mud splatter on them in heavy rains from time to time but trellises beans come clean off the vine.

If you like green beans, give Asparagus Beans aka Japanese Yard Longs a try. They are very fast growing, heavy produces of beans that I pick in the 20-24 inch range and are great cooked down like regular snap beans or grilled like you would asparagus. The only thing I find they don't do well in is if pickled as they tend to get a bit leathery texture to them. Also a climber by the way.

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I've never had to use any pesticides on them so a quick splash of water and yum yum.

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I call them vegetable candy. They are good in stir fry, steamed, raw in salads and I roasted vegetables the other night and used potatoes, carrots, cauliflower, broccoli, onions, bell peppers and sugar snap peas and it was delicious.

I just drizzles some olive oil on the vegetables and added seasonings and herbs and roasted the potatoes and carrots first since they take the longest and then added the rest so they all came out perfect at the same time.