Peas, Pisum sativum, has many culinary uses. Eaten as snow peas, sugar snaps, boiled to soup, in stews or pots or ground to flour, endless possibilities! Snow Peas has edible pods, you eat the whole pod with the seeds inside, while still unripe. Snow Peas has flat pods with thin walls and are eaten either fresh or cooked. Sugar Snap Peas are also eaten like Snow Peas but have rounded pods and thick walls. Grey peas have many uses, flour, soups, and other dishes. Marrowfat Peas are mature peas eaten either fresh or stored as dried peas. There are also yellow and green peas used for pea soup.
Graue Florentiner is a grey pea that grows to around 150-180cm high and needs support. Produces green pods that are used as snow peas and sugar snap peas. Eat fresh, freeze, or can for later use. From Germany. Pisum sativum. 10seeds/pack
Grijze Roodbloeiende is a grey pea that grows to around 150-180cm high and needs support. Produces green, large pods with a sweet and crispy flavor. Use as snow peas and sugar snap peas. Eat fresh, freeze, or can for later use. Pisum sativum. 10seeds/pack
Gunnars Ärta, “Gunnars Pea”, is a marrowfat that grows to about medium height and needs support. Heavy yielder of green pods with large green peas. Eat fresh or freeze for later consumption. Local variety from Nässjö, Småland, Sweden. From 1940. Pisum sativum. 10seeds/pack
Hälsinge Grey Pea grows up to about 150cm in height and needs support, bushy plants with small leaves. Local variety similar to 'Rättviksärten'. Flowers with red-violet flowers. Green, short small pods. Small, dark speckled seeds. Used for bread, soup, porridge, aminal feed, etc. Hälsingland, Sweden. Nordic Genebank number: NGB4078. Pisum sativum. 15seeds/pack
Holma Kvarn Grey Pea grows up to about 200cm in height and needs support. Heavy yielder of fat purple pods, with some green speckles. Flowers with violet-red flowers. Nordic Genebank number: NGB17860. From, Östergötland, Sweden. Pisum sativum. 10seeds/pack
Jons Släpärt Snow Pea is a grey pea eaten like a snow pea or a "drag pea". Was traditionally eaten slightly boiled and then dragged through the teeth. Mid-sized, green, sweet, and crispy pods. Plants grow to about 100cm in height and need support. Flowers with red-violet flowers. Small to mid-sized, speckled seeds. Old variety from Värmland, Sweden. Nordic Genebank number: NGB 21938. Pisum sativum. 10seeds/pack
Klenshyttan is a marrowfat pea that grows to around 150-180cm high and needs support. Flowers with white flowers. Produces green pods. Both pods and peas are eaten like sugar snap peas. Eat fresh, freeze, or can for later use. From Dalarna, Sweden. Pisum sativum. 10seeds/pack
Kulla Marrowfat Pea grows up to 200cm in height and needs support. Produces, straight, fat, mid-sized, green pods with large, sweet lime-green peas inside. Quite late. Nordic Genebank number: NGB17857. Pisum sativum. 10seeds/pack
Lokförare Bergfälts Jätteärt Snow Pea, classified as a grey pea. The plants grow to over 200cm in height, many times up to 300cm, and need support. Produces extremely large pods, around 3cm broad and 15cm long, sometimes up to 20cm long. Excellent, sweet flavor, meaty and crispy pods. Even large pods with more developed peas inside are still crispy and tender! Flowers with violet-red flowers. Nordic Genebank number: NGB 21724. Very rare variety. The name in Swedish means "Traindriver Mountainfields Giant Pea". The original seeds of this variety were found in the house of a Swedish train driver called Bergfält, from the city of Ludvika in Sweden. Traindriver Bergfält lived between 1890-1945. The seeds eventually ended up at a Swedish Seed Saver Organisation. Pisum sativum. 10seeds/pack
Low Early, “Låg Tidig”, is a grey pea that grows to around 30-40cm high and needs some support. Produces green pods with a sweet and crispy flavor. Use as snow peas and sugar snap peas. Eat fresh, freeze, or can for later use. Can be grown in pots and containers. Pisum sativum. 10seeds/pack
Märta Snow Pea grows to about 150cm in height and needs support. Flowers with beautiful purple flowers. Heavy yielder of yellow, "wax-like", mid-sized pods. Excellent, sweet, and crispy flavor. Fully mature peas can be used as chickpeas. From Sweden. Pisum sativum. 10seeds/pack
Meteor Marrowfat Pea grows to about 60cm in height and needs some support. Flowers with white flowers. Young, immature pods can be eaten like snow peas. Produces fat pods with large, green, sweet peas inside. Can be eaten fresh or frozen for later consumption. Pisum sativum. 20seeds/pack
Mors Stora Ärtor, "Mothers Large Peas", is a marrowfat pea that grows to around 160-180cm high and needs support. Flowers with white flowers. Produces large, green pods with large, green, sweet peas. Unripe pods are eaten like snow peas. Fully mature pods are shelled and eaten like marrow-fat peas. Eat fresh, freeze, or can for later use. From Skåne, Sweden. Pisum sativum. 10seeds/pack
Norrlands Express Snow Pea grows to about 150cm in height and needs support. Flowers with white flowers. Produces green, mid-sized pods with sweet and crispy flavor. From Sweden. Very early. Good resistance against mildew. Nordic Genebank number: NGB 11716. Pisum sativum. 10seeds/pack
Östgöta Märgärt is a marrowfat pea that grows to around 160-180cm high and needs support. Produces short and thick pods with large, slightly flattened seeds. Very good flavor. Eat fresh, freeze, or can for later use. From Sweden. Pisum sativum. 10seeds/pack
Puggor från Ballingslöv-Glimåkra is a grey pea that grows to around 160-180cm high and needs support. Flowers with purple-pink flowers. Shorter, slightly angular pods. Large and slightly dented peas in a yellow-brown, slightly red color. Use as a marrowfat pea. Eat fresh, freeze, or can for later use. Pisum sativum. 10seeds/pack
Rättviksärt Grey Pea grows to about 100cm in height and needs support, quite weak, but busy, growth. Flowers with purple-pink flowers. Produces green, small pods with small, dark speckled seeds. Was traditionally grown for animal feed, or ground to flour for porridge or bread. Nordic Genebank number: NGB 17879. Pisum sativum. 15seeds/pack
Rustica is a soup pea that grows to around 150cm high and needs support. Flowers with dark and light purple flowers. Produces green pods with green peas. Good produce. Early. Eat fresh, freeze, or can for later use. Pisum sativum. 10seeds/pack
Shiraz Snow Pea grows to about 100cm in height and needs support, strong, bushy, growth. Flowers with purple-pink flowers. Produces purple, mid-sized pods, crispy and sweet. Harvest early, immature, young pods are the best. Eat fresh, or boil slightly. Pisum sativum. 15seeds/pack
Solberga Grey Pea grows to about 175-200cm in height and needs support, strong growth. Flowers with purple-pink flowers. Heavy yielder of green, mid-sized, chubby pods. The peas can be eaten fresh, like green peas. Or stored as dried peas for later use. Has been grown at the same farm since 1600. Was traditionally grown together with the broad bean 'Solberga', which was acting as support for the peas. From Solberga, Bohuslän, Sweden. Nordic Genebank number: NGB 14153. Pisum sativum. 15seeds/pack
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