About
Peas are an easy to grow and popular vegetable.
Growing Advice
Companion Planting
Helps: Beans, carrots, celery, radishes, spinach, strawberries Avoid: Garlic, onions, potatoes
Pests & Diseases
Aphids, root rot, blight
Seed Saving
Dry the pods for a couple of weeks before shelling the peas.
Heirloom Varieties
We have divided the heirloom peas into Shelling/English peas, Snap peas and Southern peas to make it easier to find the type you are looking for.
Shelling Peas (English Peas)
- Alaska
- Alderman
- Blue Pod Capuchiner (Ditch Capucjiner)
- Blue Podded Shelling
- British Wonder
- Champion of England
- Dwarf Telephone
- Green Arrow
- Kelvedon Wonder
- Lincoln (Homesteader)
- Little Marvel (Improved American Wonder, Extra Early Little Marvel)
- Mrs. Van’s
- Ne Plus Ultra
- Prince Albert
- Sutton’s Harbinger
- Tall Telephone (Alderman)
- Thomas Laxton
- Tom Thumb
- Wando
Snap Peas (Snow Peas, Sugar Peas)
- Amish Snap
- Cascadia
- Chinese Snow
- Corne de Belier
- De Grace
- Dwarf Gray Sugar
- Golden Sweet
- Mammoth Melting Sugar
- Oregon Giant
- Oregon Sugar Pod II
- Risser Early Sugar
- Schweizer Riesen
- Sugar Ann
- Sugar Daddy
- Sugar Snap
Southern Peas (ie. Black Eyed Peas, Cowpeas)
- Big Red Ripper
- Calico Crowder (Polecat Pea, Hereford Pea)
- Colossus
- Mississippi Silver
- Peking Black Crowder
- Pinkeye Purple Hill
- Purple Podded
- Queen Ann Blackeye Pea
- Washday
- Whippoorwill
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