An outstanding new 'Petit Pois'. Plants are semi-leafless almost self supporting with an abundance of easy to pick, well-filled pointed pods, containing up to ten small, but deliciously sweet peas. Height 50cm (20in)
From British breeding, this is the first commercially grown purple variety! The purple colour is rich in healthy anthocyanin (antioxidant) pigment. Attractive bicoloured flowers form stunning flat, purple Mangetouts to eat raw and stir fry. Can also be steamed although colour will fade, or boiled when colour turns dark green. As with all Mangetouts they are best harvested and eaten young just as the 'peas' start to show. Powdery mildew resistant and tolerant to downy mildew to help extend the sowing season to early July
Dark green, semi leafless plant habit producing pods in pairs, averaging 8 dark green peas per pod. A heavy cropper even in poor growing conditions. Strong root rot tolerance and good powdery mildew resistance. Early maincrop maturity. Ideal for growing in containers. Height 80cm (32in)
Pisum sativum. Dwarf, flat, broad-podded Mangetout, Pea Sugar Snow Green crops prolifically if harvested when pods are small and before seed development within the pods
Extend the sowing season with this major development in pea breeding. In our UK trials, seed was sown in late July and pods were starting to swell by mid October. Good downy and powdery mildew resistance also helps to maximise cropping and prolong the season. This semi-leafless variety is virtually self supporting when grown in a block, and will produce 3-4 pods per node, giving a good average yield of 8 peas to the pod
Grow your own delicious peas with high yielding variety Pea ?Pacco?, each plant producing a generous crop of pods each filled with up to 10 sweet-tasting peas.
Here's a Little Miss who loves her vegetables, and her favourites are peas. All you little princes and little princesses will keep on growing if you eat up your peas, and my little secret is that the tastiest ones are those you grow at home!.
Compact habit. Fully stringless pods superb in salads, stir-fries or steamed. Powdery mildew resistance extends sowing period to early August. Harvest June-October.
We've based our selection on sweet fresh flavours, long cropping and disease resistance to give you the best possible mangetout harvest from mid summer through to autumn. Oregon Sugar Pod and Kennedy are firm customer favourites and we know you'll love the full flavour of Sweet Horizon - perfect for stir fries and steaming. Varieties in this mixture are - Kennedy, Oregon Sugar Pod and Sweet Horizon.
Produces high number of 7-8cm yellow podded sweet 'snaps' and sweet edible leaves. Harvest June-August.
Grows to 2.4m so needs good support. Attractive bicolour flowers and pink blushed 'snaps' in abundance. A tasty addition to salads and tirfries. Harvest June-August.