Sugar snap peas

I love eating these raw or cooked.

How easy would they be to to grow?

And if so could I grow in a container on my patio?
Has anyone grew these before?

 

Easy Scotkat.
I Treat as main crop peas but put double rows 2" apart in a length of old guttering and hang them in the unheated greenhouse. They are just comming through now. when they have a couple of leaves, stide the lot into a shallow trench. Then just treat as ordinary peas with rows at the same spacing as their anticipated hight.
you might have to make allowences as you are further North, I do not know but apart from that its a doddle.
The reason I do it that way is that I am not into feeding Mice.
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Where can get the seeds OWG.

My greenhouse is unheated ,I have two both are unheated.

One has trenches at either side so I can plant inborders the other has flagstones and benches.

One realy is a working greenhouse other is where show my containers and plants ready to go out into garden.

I dont have a veg garden so only containers or in greenhouse to grow.

 

Here's one source, Scotkat - T+M

http://seeds.thompson-morgan.com/uk/en/product/33/1

You would probably find them in Dobbies - then you wouldn't have P+P.

 

This is a 'best guess'!!! but you could see if you can get a tall climbing type of Sugar Snap and grow in containers like runner beans. That way you should get a reosonable crop. Also sow in sucsession 'say 3 week intervals' and you could be munching for ages.
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Thanks Franscis and OWG shall check them out.

Best get ready its our dance night .

 

I saw these seeds while in garden centre this morning.Johnstons mangeout thought this was sugar snap peas .

If I buy out of supermarket they have together babycorn and peas sure this is what I want.

When would be the best time to sow these seeds and would I be better start them of in my elect propagator.

 

Any kind of peas or beans I start off in my rootrainers, but lots of people use the insides of toilet rolls - you've probably seen the discussions about that, usually about sweet-peas.

I intend to grow mine up a wigwam in a container this year, as it looks good, and it leaves more space in my veg patch for more things.

I haven't grown babycorn before, but the instructions on the back of the packets are usually quite good, and you can always check by googling.

This is the RHS advice on growing corn - baby corn should be the same, just smaller, I should think! :rolleyes:

http://www.rhs.org.uk/advice/profiles0505/sweetcorn.asp

 

Scotcat.
Mangetout are flat sugar snap are round. Both are eaten whole.
They should be treated as maincrop peas and set in greenhouse or under a closh.
Mine withstood the recent cold snap without heat in the greenhouse.

 

Hi again OWG think mangetout are what is in a blister pack together with baby corn that is th etype of pea iwant to grow.

But if I have bought the wrong thing I am sure it wont matter.

I do not have anywhere in garden to plant veg so this will be in a container or grown in my greenhouse.

My courgettes are well through and need to be now repotted.

Shall see how container veg grow for me thsi year instead of well not quite dont want to get rid of my flowers .

I do grow in my greenhouses for my containers and hanging baskets.

This morning I saw wrought iron wall mounted troughs and a like a cauldron with handle .
Make was gardman �£12 for trough and �£14 fro cauldron in the garden centre.

Can you buy these chaaper online any where or is this a good price,

 

As far as eating is concerned, you treat them the same way, Scotkat, and both are regularly packed up in the supermarkts with babycorn. I use all of them in stir-fries a lot.

Re the troughs, etc - do you have an In-Store near you? I got a lot of that sort of stuff cheap from them last year. They're beginning to get in garden stuff now, so it might be worth a look there.

 

No we dont have an In-Store Dendy.My mangetout have just germinated and courgettes are repotted.

Strawberrie plants are in border in greenhouse ane are starting to pruduce new shoots already.

Have got blueberrie bushes just outside greenhouse siting on the deck ,shall have to put them in to containers soon.Maybe next month.

 

My sugarsnap peas arrived from T&M yesterday, so I'm reading this with interest. I have only planted peppers, tomatoes & chillies so far. I was going to wait until March to start off the rest of my veggies - well, it's only a week away, after all :D

 

Scotkat - Our blueberry is starting to show signs of growth so I suggest you get yours potted up fairly soon. Don't forget that you should use ericacious compost.