Sugar Magnolia Snap Pea Seeds

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This packet sows up to 6 feet.

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Wow, a purple snap pea, tender and delicious! 'Sugar Magnolia' isn't just a famous Grateful Dead song, it is also a beautiful, fine-flavored, edible-pod pea with purple flowers. Long hypertendrils (vigorous, multi-branching tendrils) act as extra sturdy supports for 6'-7' vining plants, creating an airy structure that also helps prevent mildew. A few of these open-pollinated peas may be speckled with green.

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Botanical Name: Pisum sativum var. macrocarpum

Days to Maturity: 70 days

Family: Fabaceae

Native: Western Asia, Europe, and North Africa

Hardiness: Frost-tolerant annual

Plant Dimensions: 6'–7' vines

Variety Information: 3"–4" purple pods. 'Sugar Magnolia' is a cross between 'Parsley Bush' pea and 'Purple Podded' vining pea.

Type: Snap pea

Attributes: Long Vines

When to Sow Outside: RECOMMENDED. 4 to 6 weeks before your average last frost date, when soil temperature is at least 40°F, ideally 60°–80°F and again 10 to 12 weeks before your average first frost date. In Mild Climates, sow in fall or winter for winter harvest. Best grown in temperatures less than 85°F.

When to Start Inside: Not recommended.

Days to Emerge: 5–10 days

Seed Depth: 1"

Seed Spacing: 2"

Row Spacing: 4'–6' apart

Thinning: Not required.

Harvesting: Snap peas should be harvested when peas are plump; pick regularly to increase yield. Use scissors to harvest or hold vine with one hand and pick the pods with the other; vines are fragile.

Pea: Sow and Grow Guide
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Sugar Magnolia Snap Pea Seeds Reviews

10 reviews

Best Snap Peas Ever!

Mar 16, 2019

Beautiful plants - foliage, flowers and peas. Every single pea from the Botanical Interests pack germinated in 2018 and the gorgeous purple pods with their tender green peas were so tasty! If they weren't so prolific, none would have made it out of the garden to the table, because they were our favorite "gardening snacks"!

Cathy Forbes

beautiful plant

Aug 2, 2019

I highly recommend this pea variety. They are both sweet and beautiful. They did grow to 7 feet so be prepared. I try a new varieties of plants each year. This was the first year growing this variety of peas and this will now be a yearly plant in my garden.

Lori

Amazing purple peas

May 6, 2020

I first bought these when my daughter was in her "only eat purple vegetables" phase & I'm so glad that I did! Now her complaint is that it takes me " forever" to harvest them all, as a dozen plants takes me a half hour to pick, twice a week. They have outperformed any other pea I've ever grown, by far. The plants are now taller than me, so tall that there are some peas I can't possibly reach. Incredible! You've got to try these amazing purple peas!

marisa dipaola

Incredibly Easy and Prolific

May 26, 2020

I wish I could put a photo here--these were such a joy to grow! Growing in Nashville -- planted on March 8th on a 7-foot trellis. Flowered on May 10. It's May 26 and I have about 50 peas ready to harvest. Beautiful pink and purple flowers, bright purple pods, large bright green peas; delicious. My only complaint is that the vines are way taller than my trellis - at least 3' taller and they've started to fall because they are so heavy. I thought the 7' trellis would be enough... nope!

Heather Neisen

beautiful, delicious and stands up to heat

Jun 11, 2020

This is my second year growing these peas. The lovely flowers, vivid color, great taste and strong yield are great points. Add to that how well they hold up in our desert heat, and this is a winner. This year I planted 2 other green varieties at the same time. At June 11, the others have faded, but these Sugar Magnolias are still producing generously. They are now garden staple for me.

Nancy Singham

Best Peas

Jun 28, 2020

I've grown these in the fall and spring in zone 6b. They are amazing! They are beautiful and the purple pods make them easy to spot when harvesting. These got up to 8ft tall so be prepared with a great trellis. I planted these with green snap peas which stayed shorter and matured faster. It allowed for an extended season of peas with the multiple colors. Highly recommend, very easy to grow.

Jessica

Great but only one plant produced purple pods, the rest were green!

Jun 30, 2020

These peas are fantastic! They sprouted fast, the vines are nice. They grow fast. The only thing I was sad about was that out of all of them that I planted only 1 created purple pods. The rest of the plants created solid green pods. They taste amazing but I really wanted the purple ones!

Victoria Kellogg

Owner Response: Uh oh! This cultivar does give some green or blotched peas but you should see mostly purple. We apologize--a customer service agent will be with you soon to help.

tasty but way too tiny

Jul 23, 2020

These sprouted and grew well but pods were only 3/4" to 1 1/4" with 2-3 normal size peas in each pod. I expected 3"-4" pods. When pods first formed I left them figuring they would get longer, but they only got fatter. Other snow and snap varieties planted in same conditions and time produced as expected. A gardener friend who planted hers a few weeks earlier than I had the same midget results. Any suggestions for better result if I plant the rest of the seeds for a fall crop?

Lynda Raymond

Owner Response: Hi Lynda, Thanks for sharing your experience. This is the first complaint we have had about small pods fo this product and has not been my personal experience either. Some common places to start is to add inoculant for better production and also consider a soil test. Phosphorus drives flowering and subsequent fruiting and there could be a deficit or the soil could be more heavily nitrogenated with assists plants with gree growth, but especially in peas (which make their own nitrogen) it can overwhelm and cause a concentration of green growth over fruiting and flowering. I hope this helps. enjoy your fall garden!

my new favorite pea

Jul 24, 2020

I have been growing peas for 20 years and this is disease resistant, extremely productive and it looks beautiful

lori bigi

Delicious!

Sep 26, 2020

I purchased these seeds on a lark, and they were amazing! They grew taller, and produced more than the green snap peas. They were delicious as well!

Heather Michalak