Pea seed Pisum sativum ‘Oregon Sugar Pod’
LATIN NAME: Pisum sativum
COMMON NAME: Oregon Sugar Pod Pea
Oregon sugar pod peas are the sweet, straight answer to the question of the spring crop. The sturdy, climbing plant carries the grey-green, pinnate leaves with the fine tendrils, and the white flowers open in pairs, to be followed by the long, straight, flat, stringless pods with the sweet, tender peas within, eaten whole in the pod. The plant is one of the fine, dependable crops of the cool season, and the pods are a classic of the early garden. It is a plant of the open, sunny, well-drained ground.
Scientific Research & Plant Biotechnology
The Oregon sugar pod pea is a plain, dependable subject of the plant science, studied for the long, straight, flat, stringless pods and the sweet peas within. The way the plant fixes its own nitrogen in the soil has been examined closely, and it keeps showing up in the work on the legume crops, the cool-season vegetables and the members of the pea family. The grey-green leaves and the sturdy, climbing habit have also made it a fine garden plant, and the sugar pod pea is a regular subject of the studies of the vegetable legumes of the temperate world.
Ecological & Economic Value & Wide Applications
The Oregon sugar pod pea is a dependable, generous crop of the cool season. The long, straight, stringless pods are eaten whole, sweet and tender straight from the vine or lightly cooked, and the plant is one of the fine early crops of the vegetable garden, standing the cool spring well. The pea plant also feeds the soil, fixing its own nitrogen for the crops that follow, and the white flowers and the curling tendrils are a quiet pleasure of the spring border. It has been written about in the horticultural and the culinary papers for the sweet, stringless pods and the cool-season ways, and it is a fine, generous crop of the open, sunny, well-drained garden.
Oregon sugar pod peas are one of the fine, dependable crops of the cool season, and the long, straight, stringless pods are eaten whole, sweet and tender straight from the vine. The plant also feeds the soil, fixing its own nitrogen for the crops that follow.
To grow the Oregon sugar pod pea from seed, sow the large, round seeds two to three centimetres deep in the open ground in rows, in the early spring, and give the young plants the support of the netting or the sticks. The seedlings are up within a couple of weeks and climb fast. With the sun and the well-drained ground, the sweet, straight pods will be ready through the late spring.
Light green, smooth edible pods 10cm/4cm long by 2cm/3/4 with a mild flavour good for eating raw, in stir fries or steamed. Freezes well, retaining the full, sweet flavour and colour. Sets double pods, very productive vines over a long period of time. Height 60cm/24-30.65 days.