A Dual-Purpose Pea

Now or Later Pea Seed

A Dual-Purpose Pea

Pick early for stringless snow peas
10-12 peas per mature pod
High-yielding plants

This unique new variety allows you to pick peas early for slender, crisp and stringless snow peas or wait till later to pick when the pods have filled out with 10 to 12 sweet shell peas. Prolific variety produces tons of pods if you want some of both! Plants held up to the heat better than any other variety in our trials. 61 DAYS.

Seed Counts: A packet of 225 pea seeds sows a 15-ft. row; 1/2 lb. sows a 50-ft. row.

All Gurney's pea seed is treated.

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Botanical Name: Pisum sativum 'Now or Later'
Height: 24 inches.
Spacing:Simply broadcast the seed in the row, allowing the seeds to fall as they may, some even touching. Cover with an inch of soil in the spring; two inches in the summer for your fall crop. Don't thin the pea plants when they germinate. May plant "double" rows
Depth:1- 1 1/2 inches deep.
Spread:6 inches.
Light Required:Full Sun
Pollinator:Self pollinating.
Yield: Heavy yields.
Size: 1/2 Lb
Fruit: Medium green pods average 4 inches long and are filled with 10 - 12 sweet, tender peas at maturity.
Days To Maturity: 61 Days
Zone: 3-9