Pisum sativum Seeds | Pea ‘oregon Sugar Pod’
LATIN NAME: Pisum sativum
COMMON NAME: Oregon Sugar Pod Pea
Plant Profile
Pisum sativum — Oregon Sugar Pod Pea — is a species in the pea family with genuine garden merit. Oregon sugar pod peas are sweet, straight answer to question of spring crop. Plant is one of fine, dependable crops of cool season, and pods are a classic of early garden. It is a plant of open, sunny, well-drained ground. Taken as a whole, it is a plant that repays a little attention many times over.
Science & Biotechnology
The species features in the wider study of the pea family, and its traits make it a useful subject for work on germination biology, cultivation and ornamental selection. The Oregon sugar pod pea is a plain, dependable subject of plant science, studied for long, straight, flat, stringless pods and sweet peas within. Gardeners benefit directly from its long cultivation: what the plant will do in a garden is well understood.
Uses & Benefits
Beyond its ornamental appeal, Oregon Sugar Pod Pea has the practical versatility that makes a plant worth growing from seed year after year. The Oregon sugar pod pea is a dependable, generous crop of cool season. Long, straight, stringless pods are eaten whole, sweet and tender straight from vine or lightly cooked, and plant is one of fine early crops of vegetable garden, standing cool spring well. Pea plant also feeds soil, fixing its own nitrogen for crops that follow, and white flowers and curling tendrils are a quiet pleasure of spring border. After the first season it asks for very little beyond a place that suits it.
Peas are protein, fiber and sweetness in a pod, and their shoots are a delicate stir-fry green; pea protein isolate now anchors the plant-protein industry.
Growing from Seed
Raising Oregon Sugar Pod Pea from seed is straightforward. Broadcast the seed thinly over a fine, free-draining compost, sieve a little more compost on top, and water with a fine rose. Shift the seedlings into small pots as soon as they can be handled, and give them bright light until planting-out time.
Our Take
Few garden plants carry such a documented history of use as this one does. Once established, Oregon Sugar Pod Pea largely looks after itself. Careful watering early on is rewarded by toughness at maturity.
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