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.
Alderman is a marrowfat pea that grows to around 170-190cm high and needs support. Flowers with white flowers. Heavy yielder of large, green pods, green peas with a sweet and tasty flavor. Eat fresh, freeze, or can for later use. Shows resistance to pea moth. Old variety from 1891. Pisum sativum. 20seeds/pack
Arvidsjaur Snow Pea is a variety from the region Norrbotten in Sweden. Similar to the variety ’Svartbjörsbyn’ but slightly sweeter. Medium-high, about 150cm. White flower,s green, sweet, crispy pods. Small, yellow seeds. Early. Nordic Genebank number: NGB11750. Pisum sativum. 10seeds/pack
Bamby Snow Pea is a low-growing variety, about 65cm high. Large, broad pods, around 10cm long. Green, crispy and sweet. 60D. Pisum sativum. 20seeds/pack
Beda is a marrowfat pea that grows to around 150cm high and needs support. Flowers with white flowers. Produces a mid-sized harvest of very sweet and tasty green peas. Eat fresh, freeze, or can for later use. From Sweden. Pisum sativum. 10seeds/pack
Bishop’s Pea, also called Biskopens, is a high-growing variety, about 200cm high. Flowers with pink-red flowers. Green pods that can be harvested as snow peas as unmatured. When fully ripe and dry the peas have distinct dark burgundy red color. Have a rustic, rough feel. Use as cooking pea etc. 120D. Pisum sativum. 10seeds/pack
Björks Snow Pea produces small green pods, resembling many of the other sweet peas from Norrland, Sweden. Possibly slightly more productive than other varieties from this region. Grows up to 200cm and needs support. Has been grown by the Björk’s Family for generations, at least since 1847. In an old letter from the donor of the seeds we can read “Best of luck with the tasty pea”. From Jämtön, Luleå, Sweden. 10seeds/pack
Bjurholms Blåärt is a blue pea that grows to around 150-170cm high and needs support. Flowers with purple-pink flowers and after, produce dark purple pods. Can be used as a snow pea if harvested early. When harvested as fully ripe, use as shelling peas in soups, pies, stews, etc. Can be eaten fresh or dried or canned for later use. From Sweden. Pisum sativum. 10seeds/pack
Blauwschokker is a variety growing to around 180-200cm high and needs support. Flowers with purple-pink flowers and after, produce dark purple pods. Can be used as a snow pea if harvested early. When harvested as fully ripe, use as marrowfat peas or shelling peas in soups, pies, stews, etc. Can be eaten fresh or dried or canned for later use. The full name of this variety is Ezeta’s Krombek Blauwschokker. An old variety that was widely grown in Holland. Pisum sativum. 15seeds/pack
Blue Prussian is a variety with slight blue-green tint peas. Heavy yielder of mid-sized pods. Grows to about 170cm in height and needs support. Eat fresh or dry for later use. Pisum sativum. 10seeds/pack
Boaryd Snow Pea, called "eye snow pea", since the seeds have a black small spot, an "eye". Small leaves, bushy plants growing up to 200cm high. Flowers with white flowers. Green pods, crispy and sweet. Quite late. From Småland in Sweden. Nordic Genebank number: NGB17833. Pisum sativum. 10seeds/pack
Breslau Marrowfat Pea grows up to 100cm in height and needs some support. Mid-sized pods with green, sweet peas. Flowers with white flowers. Yellow-brown, round seeds. Early. Pisum sativum. 15seeds/pack
Desirée Marrowfat Pea grows up to 50cm in height and needs minimal support. Mid-sized, purple pods with lime-green, sweet peas. Harvest immature pods as snow peas and fully mature pods as marrowfat peas. Early. Pisum sativum. 15seeds/pack
Dwarf Grey Sugar Snap Pea grows up to 100cm in height and needs support. Mid-sized, green pods with sweet and crispy flavor, around 7cm long. Flowers with pink-purple flowers. Early. Pisum sativum. 15seeds/pack
Edsbyn Bluepea flowers with pink-purple flowers. Produces purple pods with light brown peas. High, grows to around 200cm, and needs support. Early. Heavy yielder. From Hälsingland, Sweden. 10seeds/pack
Emigrant Snow Pea flowers with white flowers. Produces long, meaty, green pods with a sweet and crispy flavor. Heavy yielder. High, grows to over 200cm, and needs support. 10seeds/pack
Evy i Våthult Snow Pea grows up to 200cm in height and needs support. Produces mid-sized, green pods with sweet and crispy flavor, around 7-10cm long. Flowers with white flowers. Old variety from Limmared, Gislaved, Småland, Sweden. Pisum sativum. 10seeds/pack
Finas Fina is a marrowfat pea that grows to around 150cm high and needs support. Flowers with white flowers. Heavy yielder of chubby, short, green pods with 4-5 oval, green peas. Eat fresh, freeze, or can for later use. From Halland, Sweden. Mid-season. Pisum sativum. 10seeds/pack
Finnmarksärt is a snow pea that grows to around 150cm high and needs support. Sturdy plants, good climbers! Flowers with white flowers in pairs. Produces green pods with large, round, medium-sweet peas. From Finnmarken, Sweden. Does well also in poor soils. Tolerates light frost. Pisum sativum. 10seeds/pack
Finsk Släpärt Snow Pea, "Finish Drag-Pea", grows up to 200cm in height and needs support. Produces mid-sized, green pods with sweet and crispy flavor, around 6cm long. Eat at a snow pea. Has traditionally been boiled slightly and then "dragged" through the teeth, delicious! Pisum sativum. 10seeds/pack
Freezonian is a marrowfat pea that grows to around 100-150cm high and needs support. Flowers with white flowers. Produces green pods with thin walls. Around 8 peas in each pod, medium-sweet. Eat fresh, freeze or can for later use. Bred by Rogers Brothers Seed Co, USA in 1947. Pisum sativum. 10seeds/pack
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