Sweet Gem Pea

Sweet Gem Pea

The best!

Eating the goodies already. Despite the deer taking the first tops they have hung in there and are producing like crazy.

Good tasting pea.

Just finished pulling the spent plants yesterday. Peas germinated quite well - I planted 2 to a hole before the last frost and I think just about all of them sprouted. Plants grew about 5ft tall on support, and even with less rain than normal and wildly changing temps in my 7b place I got a heavy harvest for a few weeks. Taste was sweeter with slightly less crunch than a sugar snap - it felt more concentrated. I ate a bunch roaming the garden fresh, blanched and froze a bunch for stir-fries, and at the end when the pods were bursting, shelled and ate the peas fresh! Very versatile. I probably could have gotten another flush with fertilization, but the heat is here and I pulled them out for beans I also got from MI Gardener.