How to Presprout and Grow Sugar Snap Peas
Easy step by step instructions on how to presprout and grow Sugar Snap Peas. By doing this you’ll be sure that the seeds won’t rot before they sprout under the soil resulting in a successful plant and many pounds of sugar snap peas to pick!
How to Grow Sugar Snap Peas
Presprouting Sugar Snap Peas is a important step to growing big Sugar Snap Pea plants. By doing this you’ll be sure that the seeds won’t rot before they sprout under the soil (due to temperature). It also guarantees that you won’t be wasting your time planting some seeds that might not even sprout at all causing you to wait and fall back in the garden season schedule.
Germinating peas
This is our quick and easy method for presprouting peas. We’ve been doing this for the past many years with a successful sugar snap pea harvest twice a year.
Directions:
Step 1: Drop your peas in a bowl of water to get them wet.
Step 2: Dampen a full sheet of paper towel. Put your peas in the middle of the paper towel and wrap up, like a envelope.
Step 3: Put the peas in a plastic bag or covered container. Check on the peas daily. If you notice the paper towel is getting dry, add a few drops of water to make sure it stays wet.
Step 4: The peas will take a few days to sprout. On average ours take 3-4 days to sprout.
Once they sprout then plant them as usual in your garden bed or ground. I also recommend a good inoculant (that’s the one we use) on your peas when planting.
And soon enough you’ll have pounds of sugar snap peas to pick and eat!
Looking for sugar snap pea recipes? Try my Roasted Sugar Snap Peas!
Hope you enjoyed this easy trick to get your garden sugar snap peas started!
How to video!
How to Grow Sugar Snap Peas
Easy step by step instructions on how to presprout and grow Sugar Snap Peas.
Ingredients
- sugar snap peas
Instructions
Drop your peas in a bowl of water to get them wet.
Dampen a full sheet of paper towel. Put your peas in the middle of the paper towel and wrap up, like a envelope.
Put the peas in a plastic bag or covered container. Check on the peas daily. If you notice the paper towel is getting dry, add a few drops of water to make sure it stays wet.
The peas will take a few days to sprout. On average ours take 3-4 days to sprout. Once they sprout then plant them as usual in your garden bed or ground. I also recommend a good inoculant (that’s the one we use) on your peas when planting.
Very helpful and cool! Those sugar peas look really fresh and great.
I’ve always wondered if pre-sprouting peas would be beneficial… glad to know it is! I’ve always been lazy and never do it, but I’m definitely going to this year. What a great harvest!
Great tip! I’ve had mixed success with my sugar snaps. I should try your method — I know from your huge harvests that it must work!
I LOVE all your gardening and farm posts, because they are seriously SO helpful! BUT, I always get so jealous!! I can’t have a garden because the deer here just eat everything. I’m going to have to keep living vicariously through you, girlfriend! However, should the day come I can ever have a garden, I have all these posts bookmarked! 😉 Cheers and thanks for all the great 411!!
Aww thanks Cheyanne! I hope one day you’ll have the garden of your dreams! Have you thought about putting up a fence? I know it’s hard work but if you put up a tall fence, it will keep the deer out.. that’s what we do Upstate with the many deer that live on our land! Good luck! 🙂
Dear Pamela, we went away for month of January and came home to find that the snap peas I left in refrigerator sprouted! What can I do to with them? Can I plant them using the whole pod?
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