Snap pea 'Stringless Sugar Snap'

Stringless Sugar Snap is part of the Pisum genus and is a Snap pea variety. Its scientific name is Pisum sativum var. macrocarpon 'Stringless Sugar Snap'. Stringless Sugar Snap is a variety of hybrid OP Snap pea .

Characteristics: Climbing vine, medium pods, late maturity, first cultivar used for processing, stringless.
Disease Resistance: powdery mildew, tolerance to BLRV. PVP 8300164. 1984. ¹

Does best when provided with a trellis.

Stringless Sugar Snap Snap pea is great for inexperienced gardeners and those that like low maintainance gardens.

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By our calculations, you should look at sowing Stringless Sugar Snap about 42 days before your last frost date.

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‘Stringless Sugar Snap’ is a named variety of edible-pod pea which was first created by scientists at Novartis/Gallatin Valley, a gene-tech company.
This variety was then patented (SP110-24), in 1984. ¹

First introduced in 1979, but not patented until 1984. Because the 1984 patent has since expired (plant patents last only 20 years), this pea variety is no longer patented.²

Sugar snap, Sugarsnap, Sugar snap climbing, sugarsnap climbing

¹ http://cuke.hort.ncsu.edu/cucurbit/wehner/vegcult/peagreenmz.html

² http://davesgarden.com/guides/pf/go/8/