Peas

Pea (Pisum sativum var. sativum)  40-50 seeds per pkg. – $3.00

370. Bill Jump – 80 days These peas are small podded but good eaten fresh or for dry shelling and soup use in the fall.  Peas are small and round with good flavor.  Allow for trellising to keep off the ground and harvest dry peas by laying on a tarp in the fall and stomping to release the peas.

371. Prairie Pea – 65 days  Similar to Straight Arrow, these peas are a top performer on our farm.  Sweet with 5-7 peas per pod, keeping sweet quality for a long time.

372. Mrs. Vans – 70 days  Taller plants need trellises for support.  Productive and tasty.

373. Tall Telephone – 72 days  Very tall peas, producing shorter pods, with good flavor, lighter in color than reg peas, and slightly smaller.

374. Skyscraper – 72 days  Very tall, need trellises.  Good pods with tasty peas, 5-6 peas per fat pod.  Lighter colored seeds.

375. White Sugar Snap – 62 days  Early and productive, sugar snap peas are the type where you eat the pods along with the peas when they are fat.  Really sweet and stringless.

376.  Green Arrow type – 75 days  Good producer of long podded, sweet peas.  Good sugar holding capabilities.  Enjoyable for fresh eating or blanche to enjoy that wonderful flavor in the winter.

377. Homesteader type – 72 days  Proven for the prairies, good producers with good flavor.  Susceptible to mold.

378. Green Cross – 72 days  A mixture of several sweet green pea varieties that have turned out wonderfully.  These are good producers.

379. Sugar Peas – 76 days  An edible pod type, flatter than White sugar snap, used in stir fries.

380.  Crazy Kids – 70 days  These seeds came in a package of kids starter garden seeds from Territorial Seeds years ago and were always fun to grow because of the leafy frond type hand that comes out of the end of each vine and the very curly tendrils.  Different leaf shape, but great tasting peas, only 5 per pod, but in clusters of 3-4 peas per node. Sold out.  20 per pkg.

381.  Igloo – 70 days. NEW!! Open-pollinated sweet shelling peas for cool weather conditions.  They are good producers of long pods, and sugary peas.  Limited quantities.

382.  Alaska– 65-70 days. NEW!! Developed for cooler spring fruit set and shorter growing seasons.  Good pod length and great taste.  Medium high climbers (4-5’).  Sold out this year.

383.  Laxton’s Progress – 68 days.  A popular variety for home gardeners.  Open-pollinated.  Good producers of long, straight pods with 8-9 peas inside.  Good disease resistance.

384. Olympia– 68 days.  Early producer, medium tall, long pods with lots of peas.  Sweet flavor and good for markets or freezing, or just eating fresh.

385.  Mammoth Melting Pod – 70 days. NEW!! Large vines produce huge pods used as a stir-fry pea.  Great flavor and sugar holding abilities.  Open-pollinated variety.

386.  Hungarian Shelling Pea – 65 days. NEW!! 3-4” pods holding 6-7 peas of exceptional flavor and holding ability.  Great pea forAlberta.  I like this variety a lot.  Limited quantities for 2012.

387.  Cascadia – 67 days. NEW!! A flat delicious snap pea that has good disease resistance in wet conditions.  Climber or unstaked they tumble in the garden.  Limited quantities.

388.  Bolero – 65 days. NEW!! A variety grown for it’s long pods filled with sweet peas.  A medium sized climber, and prolific.

389.  Stir Fry mix – This package contains seeds for onions, sugar snap peas, carrots, broccoli (Chinese), mung beans (for sprouts), and peppers for starters.  Just add whatever else you like.  Instructions included.  Each seed individually marked and packaged.  About 120 seeds – $12.50