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I recently took a week long vacation and came back to see my Mammoth Melting Sugar Snow peas beginning to flower. Lots of small white flowers are starting to form that means within 1 1/2 to 2 weeks, I should be ready to taste my first snow peas of the season. My original estimated harvest was Thursday, June 17th, so it looks like I will be right on the money.

Some of the lower leaves have been dying off, but with new growth at the top, I am not concerned about that, and neither should you be.

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The most exciting time for a vegetable gardener has come – the harvest. My first harvest of the year is my Burpeeana Early peas. It took to the 11th week to get my first harvest. The estimated harvest date was Sunday, May 23rd. So it was off about 2 weeks. My time from sowing the seeds to my first harvest was 77 days.

When to Harvest?
How do you know when to harvest the peas? I think some trial and error needs to take place. You want to make sure your peas have developed enough, so look for the bumps underneath. But if they over develop they become more starchy and less sweet. If the pod is nice and round you definitely want to pick them. Try some pods at different stages. Test the peas within to find the optimal picking size for your taste buds. Make sure you harvest frequently, so more peas can grow and more harvesting can take place.

Harvest Right Before Cooking
The quicker you can go from vine to pot the better. The peas begin to convert sugar into starch immediately after leaving the vine. So it’s best to pick me right before you are going to eat them. But if that is not possible, you can try storing them in the fridge to slow down the process. Or another option is to just eat them how they are. They are so sweet off the vine, it’s like eating candy.

Harvest Results
My first harvest was rather small, as I would expect from the first time. But like I said earlier it’s important to keep picking tn encourage more growth. I expect my next harvest in a a day or two to be larger. The amount of peas I got, include the shell which you don’t eat, was 1.4 ounces.

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At about the 9 week point my Burpeeana Early peas began to show signs of flowering. The flowers are white in color. From the point in which the flowers show up until the peas are mature to harvest will probably be around 1 1/2 to 2 weeks. It’s exciting to see those first flowers appear, it’s then you know you are in the home stretch.

Also at this point I have noticed some of the lower leaves are dying off. I am not concerned about this. I am seeing new growth on top and I have seen lower leaves die off in broccoli, cabbage, and tomatoes before and those plants still did well. So if this happens to do, no need to worry as long the plant is still growing.

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It has been 5 weeks since I planted my mammoth melting sugar snow peas. At this point they have climbed to about half way up the support I have for them. They are definitely fast growers. I am excited to see how tall they get. Another week of plenty of rain is keeping me from having to water them. They are pretty low maintenance.

Click here to read all my posts regarding this variety of pea. My Burpeeana Early peas have now reached the top of the support I set up for them. But I am not concerned about them exceeding it as the pea plants are close enough together to grab each other for more support. At this point I am expecting to see the first flowers beginning to appear anytime now. We have had a rainy May, so I haven’t had to do any additional watering myself.

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These peas have been growing good lately. The rain and cool nights have been a gift to these peas. Tendrils are shooting out everywhere. Since the plants are so close together they are even using each other to reach for the sky. If things go right I should be seeing flowers forming in the next 2 weeks.

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I am now at week 4 of growing my mammoth melting sugar peas and wow, have they taken off. They are about the same height now as my burpeana early peas that I planted weeks before. They are gripping my mesh netting pretty good now. We have had lots of rain and cool temperatures at night, great growing conditions for peas. I can’t wait until these snow peas will be melting in my mouth.

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This Saturday will mark the 3 week point since I planted my Mammoth Melting Sugar Snow Peas. We got some nice rain last weekend and we have been having temperatures in the mid 60s for highs with belowing freezing at night all week. Nice growing weather for peas! It took about 10 days or so to see any life from the pot. I am expecting things to really start to pick up now. These snow peas are called mammoth for a reason, so I want to see them shoot for the sky.

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My Burpeeana Early peas continue to grow well. We had a lot of rain this past weekend. As you can see from the picture above the tenterils are really starting to grow now. It seems once they get a hold of something the grow really quick. My plants are spaced very close together, so the plants are supporting each other. Since this is a dwarf that support will be plenty. I am roughly a month away from my first harvest.

You may have noticed the white spots on the leaves. If you didn’t take a look now. Those spots have appeared on everything pea plant I have grown and I have never had any problems, so if you are worried about seeing them on yours, stop worrying now.

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It’s been about 5 weeks now since I planted my Burpeeana early peas. At this point they are starting to grow longer tenterils, which some are getting long enough to begin to hook onto the mesh neeting I have surrounding the pot. It will be exciting to watch them grow over the next month as we get closer to the first harvest (my first harvest period for the season!).