Tall Snow Peas?

[vfem]

So in years past all the peas (shelling and snow) on average got about 18" tall. I bought some yellow snow peas this year, and staked the ground with some 18" tall wire I had left over from making cages. Well these guys are like 4' tall all of a sudden, and still no flowers.

I look up my peas and it says the get up to 6' tall and are late bloomers. UT OH!

Is this an odd size for peas, or were my past experiences with them being so short the oddity?

With all this rain I don't know how, but I need to somehow make shift some stakes that can hold the weight. They are already toppling over when I went to check on them!

 

[annageckos]

I plant lots and lots of sugar snap peas every year and they get about six feet tall. I was surprised last year when I planted shelling type peas (first time planting them) and they only got a foot or two tall. As far as I know it is not unusual for snow and sugar snap peas to get tall.

 

[digitS']

There are a few snow pea varieties, V.

I have tried 1 or 2 that are dwarf without coming up with one that could be grown without a trellis. I put more of an effort with the snap pea dwarfs, since the pods get heavy and drag down my string affairs. Nothing has worked well for me and I find it best just to prepare for vines that will be about 4'.

Mammoth Melting and Oregon Sugar Pod II are two of the more popular snow peas and both are quite tall.

You didn't use poultry manure for the ground where the peas are growing, did you ?

Steve

 

[ducks4you]

I've planted dwarf sugar snap peas this year bc they don't require staking. My other SS Peas are growing in a 3 x 12' bed with an old, over the toilet shelving something, now sans glass and on it's side. I saved small fruit tree prunings and put those in between the rows to help them grow. By the end of the month they should be all over the place.
There are also dwarf sweet peas, and I've planted them, too.

 

[catjac1975]

I only buy tall peas-easier to pick. I like sugar snap, mammoth melting, and tall telephone.

 

[897tgigvib]

If you get cheap wire fencing in rolls, such as 4 foot, 5 foot or 6 feet high, unroll it, and use lineman pliers to cut it in 3 foot lengths, leave one side with the wires out several inches, then make it into a circle, and use the ends you left to wrap to close the circle, you have a good start. Next, bend it some so it forms a long oval with parallel sides about 6 inches apart, you are almost there. For the bottom that will go into the ground, use the lineman pliers to remove the bottom strand and leave the wire sticking down. they should be several inches long. Those will stick into the ground, but they won't hold it in perfectly.

Get a couple of stakes, one on each end, and pound them firmly in the ground after setting your homemade pea trellis in place. Now use twine to tie the trellis to the stakes.

You can plant your peas on both sides of this for a double row.

You can make these as big or as small as you want.

 

[vfem]

Thanks MArshall, sadly these guys are long ago planted and have over grown into a huge 4'x4'x4' deep clump!!!!

I planted them in a zig zag pattern. Bummer.... I have a serious mess of vines to clean up. My snow peas in the past much have been dwarf varieties.