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Peas

Chianti pea seeds will give you a perfect flavoursome summer crop. Pea’s home grown from seed taste delicious raw, fresh from the pod, as soon as you’ve picked them. If you do get them as far as the kitchen, they are a really versatile vegetable, a family favourite that is a simple, tasty addition to all kinds of meals. The varieties we have all been organically grown in our special black compost mix, giving you a bit of a difference.
  • Is an Attractive, yellow sweet pea pods. Produces over an extended season. Best picked at 3 ' 3 1/2" long, as larger pods will be bitter and develop a string. The tall, 60 ' 72", purple-flowered vines need trellising. 1 to 2 pods per node.

    Per Packet
    NZ$ 5.50
  • This is an improved Ornamental Sugar Snap variety. The 8 cm long, fat, dark-green pods are the sweetest of our snap peas. The crunchy pods are excellent for eating cooked or raw. Ornamental Sugar snap pea seeds produce vigorous climbing vines that should be trellised, and will easily grow 2 m or more in good soil.

    Per Packet
    NZ$ 5.50
  • This heavy yielder bears slim, straight pods packed with 9 to 11 small, deep green berries. Exquisite flavour and tenderness makes Green Arrow ideal for fresh market or freezing, and efficient 24-28" vines need no trellising.

    - Seeding depth: 1 - 1.5 inches
    - Germination days: 6 - 12 days
    - Maturation days: 70 days

    Per Packet
    NZ$ 5.00
  • Pick them before they grow large to enjoy them at their best, they peas also very tasty when immature. These crunchy pods have a good, sweet flavour and make a colourful and tasty raw addition to a salad, for snacking or steamed and served as a side. Easy to grow on trellis or other growing supports, the strong hyper-tendrils cling well and support the long, climbing stems. Height: 1.8 cm. Spread: 25 cm. Another purple highly healthy vegetable!

    Per Packet
    NZ$ 6.00
  • Is a First Early Variety.

    Pick fresh, tasty peas early in the season with this quality. Enjoy trouble-free, bumper crops from Pea 'Twinkle' thanks to its impressive Fusarium Wilt resistance and Downy Mildew tolerance. This compact first early variety is self-supporting when grown in blocks - perfect for successional sowing for a longer cropping period. Height: 55 cm. Spread: 25 cm.

    Per Packet
    NZ$ 5.00
  • Pea 'Rondo' produces excellent yields of the highest quality, straight, long pods, containing an average of 10 deliciously plump peas per pod. This wrinkle seeded pea also shows good resistance to Fusarium wilt race 1. An excellent variety for freezing or eating freshly picked. Height: 75 cm. Spread: 25 cm.

    Excellent for Freezing, Stir-fry's, Cooking, juicing, etc..

    Per Packet
    NZ$ 5.00
  • Snow peas are like giant mangetout. They can be eaten when immature like a mangetout or left for the peas to swell in the pod, giving you huge, juicy and stringless 'Snow Peas'. Perfect to snack on, stirfry or eat in salads. Very sweet and tasty, perfect for kids.

    This flamboyant snow pea sports Bicolour purple flowers with large, vivid green pods. Set on vigorous vines, they grow up to 4-5' tall. The tender green snow pea pods are crisp, stringless and truly delicious, and you'll find some have a soft pink blush to the tips. Height 100-150cm (39-59"); spread 20-30cm (8-12").

    Per Packet
    NZ$ 5.00
  • Is a Heirloom introduced in 1846 and has had a reputation for exceptional flavour. Sturdy vines grow upward, reaching up tp 10 feet tall with large pods. Provide a trellis or fence for vertical support.

    Per Packet
    NZ$ 6.50
  • Heritage Yellow Sugar snap peas are a beautiful and rare variety from Europe. Seeds produce 12cm approx., tall vines with two-toned purple flowers. The flat lemon-yellow peas are sweet and crunchy when fresh and equally tasty in stir-fries. These peas should be grown in the cooler months of the year using a trellis or support system for vines reaching heights around 12 cm approx., tall. Harvest your Yellow Sugar snap peas when they are small and slim for optimal flavor.

    Per Packet
    NZ$ 6.00

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