Cascadia Sugar Snap Pea – 20 Seeds

Cascadia Sugar Snap Pea is a climbing sugar snap that can reach up to 100cm. The plants are best grown on a trellis but can also be grown on the ground as a bush. Very sweet, thick walled, green, edible pods up to to 8cm long with good flavor. Excellent raw, steamed or fried. Good yields. Can be used at the edible pod stage or as a shelling pea. The very sweet peas remain succulent and tender. A short-vined, compact plant (approx. 75-100cm) that is generally self-supporting, so staking will not be required for this variety. Good home garden variety.

Cascadia Sugar Snap Pea Culinary Overview

• Type: Sugar Snap Pea
• Edible Parts: The entire pod is edible. Cascadia is known for having thick-walled, juicy, and sweet pods that, unlike some older snap varieties, are stringless.
• Taste Profile: Very sweet, thick-walled, and crunchy. The pods remain succulent even when mature.
• Culinary Use: Excellent for raw snacking, dipping, stir-fries, and steaming. They hold their texture well when cooked.

Growing Cascadia Sugar Snap Pea

Indoor Sowing: Not Recommended.

Direct Sowing: Autumn, Mid Winter and Early Spring.

• Garden peas are climbing plants and for best productivity and ease of harvest they should be grown on a short trellis.
• Best grown in full sun but can also cope with very light shade.
• Sow pea seeds 2.5cm deep  and space seeds 6cm apart to form a vigorous wall of pea plants.
• Plant directly where they are to grow as peas can suffer from transplant shock.
• Water once and don’t water again until the seedlings emerge to reduce the chance of the pea seeds rotting in the soil.
• Germination takes 9 – 14 days.
• Harvest 12 – 14 weeks after sowing.