snow, sugar snap and shell peas

This year the sugar snap peas grew the best in our garden. The plants grew so tall, past the chicken wire fence that I provided for them to climb up. I had to put taller sticks and string rope across and down to the plants so that they would keep growing up. Nowadays, the plants are heavy with pods, so I have to compensate for that and laying sticks against the peas.

I sowed the seeds during April vacation, and right now they are producing a lot of pods. In contrast, the snow peas had a lower rate of germination and the shell peas stayed short below the chicken wire fence line. I kept shell peas from past years, and they did not germinate as well as this year's seeds.

I get my seeds from high mowing seeds company in Northern Vermont (www.highmowingseeds.com). The seeds are organic and this year, the packets of seeds show you the pictures of the plant you are buying, which is really helpful.