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.
Growing Peas
After the peas are germinated, then you can plant them straight into your garden beds or soil. We dig a little trench in the soil and throw the peas in, usually about 3 inches apart. Then we’ll cover them up, push down on the soil gently with our hands and then sprinkle them with water. Here’s my walk through on how to plant peas!
Then you wait for the first one to pop through the soil which usually takes over a week. It’s a exciting time where every day you will run to the garden to see the first one. Once the first one pops up the others will follow quickly.
And soon enough you’ll have pounds of sugar snap peas to pick and eat!
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Hope you enjoyed this easy trick to get your garden sugar snap peas started!
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How to Grow Sugar Snap Peas
PrintIngredients
- 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.
Candy Austin says
I have hybrid sugar snap/pea tendrils seeds I grow for chef’s as shoots and I have had the worst problem with germination and mold. I’m definitely going to try this method. THANK YOU! Will let you know.
Pamela says
Hey Candy, we have never had mold issues with this method and we’ve been doing it for a while. Best of luck!
Bette Davis says
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?
Cheyanne @ No Spoon Necessary says
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!!
Pamela says
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! 🙂
John/Kitchen Riffs says
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!
Keri @ Fashionable Foods says
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!
Angie@Angie's Recipes says
Very helpful and cool! Those sugar peas look really fresh and great.