Snow Pea

Snow Pea sprouts(USA) 

There are basically 3 ways of growing snow peas,

1. Microgreen or Vertical Sprout, this is where you grow them densely together as a sprout and harvest them at 2-3 weeks, this method uses either a small amount of growing medium e.g. coco fibre and or vermiculite and or vermiculite or using no growing medium using one of our grills, which goes in the base of one of the rectangular trays.
2. The second method, is where you plant them in a deeper pot and allow them to grow to about 30 cm and then you start picking the top couple of leaves as they appear, this can be repeated for several months.
3. The third method is to let the plant grow to seed and harvest the snow pea pods that you are familiar with, being a dwarf variety it will grow to 1-2m, obviously the density of the seeds being planted becomes less with each method.

This is a most versatile plant & the abundance of nutritious leaves that melt in your mouth will give you a delicious nutritious base for any salad (also great to add to stir-fry). Feeding your snow peas with our bio-activated nutrients ensures that you will be receiving a nutrient supplement in the most living available form. To do this you will require a sunny window, or use one of our low power light growing kits, and 12 minutes once a week for replanting, assuming you replant 1- 3 trays once per week.

Growing Snow Peas just using liquid nutrient in the base of the tray.

This is the method, basically you soak and rinse the seeds every day for 2 days in the summer and 3 days in the winter, at the end of this time the single root of the Snow pea will have grown to approximately 15mm long. You now individually place each pea with its root down through each alternate slot in the grill, you then take the tray to where it can sit in a sunny or under a light, position, you then fill the base of the tray until the water/nutrient level comes up to the base of the grill ie so the tail of the pea is touching the water, and that’s all you have to do for the 1^st week plus or minus depending on temperature, until the water level has disappeared. For the remaining week you just add a small amount of water/nutrient into the base of the tray, not filling, so you are allowing plenty of aeration for the roots. This process takes a little bit more time at the beginning but the ease and lack of attention after this point is greatly worth it. Also to note, because the seed dries out there is less chance for the seeds to rot i.e. a very clean method.

Tip:- the more light that the Snow pea have, the larger the leaf and the less stem, if you do not have enough light than the plant will put more energy into stem growth ie in search of light.

We have also designed some Perspex pliers specifically for picking out suspect Snow pea or Field pea seeds. Select yes if you would like us to include them with your order, the default is no because obviously once you have one set then unless you lose them you don’t need us to put them in every time.

Not available for shipping to WA or TAS.