Mammoth Melting Snowpea lives up to its name with impressively large, juicy pods that can stretch 4 to 7 inches long, each bursting with 4 to 8 sweet peas inside. This cold-tolerant annual from the legume family matures in just 65 days and thrives in full sun, producing an abundance of pods so sweet that fresh snacking often wins out over cooking. The variety's frost hardiness and prolific yield make it a reliable cool-season grower, whether you're starting seeds directly outdoors 4 to 6 weeks before your last frost or planting again in late summer for a fall harvest.
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These peas are so explosively sweet that gardeners struggle to keep them long enough to reach the kitchen. The mammoth pods grow 4 to 7 inches long and contain an exceptional 4 to 8 peas each, with plants generating truly abundant harvests throughout the cool season. Their frost tolerance means you can sow early in spring and again in late summer, extending your snowpea season across two major growing windows.
Fresh snowpea pods are wonderfully versatile in the kitchen. They shine raw in salads where their crisp texture and natural sweetness need no dressing, go brilliantly into stir-fries where their tender pods cook through in seconds, and are equally at home as simple fresh snacks eaten straight from the garden.
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Starting seeds indoors is not recommended for this variety. Direct sowing outdoors yields better results.
Sow seeds outdoors 4 to 6 weeks before your average last frost date when soil temperature reaches at least 40°F, ideally 60 to 80°F. For a fall harvest, sow again 10 to 12 weeks before your average first frost date. In mild climates, fall or winter sowing is possible for winter harvest. Plant seeds 1 inch deep.
Pick pods when they're still tender and the peas inside are swollen but not yet hard. Pods can range from 4 to 7 inches long at full maturity. Harvest regularly to encourage continued pod production throughout the season. The pods are edible in their entirety, so pick them fresh when they snap cleanly from the vine.
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