Vegetable / Cool season
Sugar Snap Pea
Early trellis crop that frees space before summer vegetables.
Sweet edible pods for fresh snacking.
Seed spacing and maturity
- Days to maturity
- 62
- Germination temperature
- 40-75F
- Seed depth
- 1 inches
- Spacing
- 2 inches
- Row spacing
- 18 inches
- Start method
- Direct sow
Frost-date timing
- Direct sow
- 35 days before last frost
- Fall planting
- 10 weeks before first frost
Action plan
- Can I plant this now?
- Use your local last-frost, first-frost, and soil-temperature checks before treating this crop as plantable today.
- Start indoors or direct sow?
- Direct sow into the final bed when the soil temperature, seed depth, and moisture are ready.
- How much space?
- 2 inches in-row spacing, 18 inches between rows, and 1 inch seed depth.
- Best companions?
- Use crop-family rotation first, then pair with compatible timing, spacing, and canopy size rather than relying on a simple companion chart.
- Common failure modes?
- Heat shortens the harvest window. Moderate water; avoid waterlogged soil. Cool, well-drained soil with support netting.
Is it still worth sowing this year?
Every region this site covers (Texas, North Florida, Central Maryland, New York City and York County, PA) publishes a snap pea planting window, so the answer for this variety is already dated. No other region is covered yet.
- What Texas gardeners can still sow, Sugar Snap Pea included AgriLife lists snap pea for Texas (AgriLife Region III); the page measures that window against this variety's 62 days to maturity and the region's first frost date.
- North Florida sow-by date for Sugar Snap Pea UF/IFAS lists snap pea for North Florida; the page measures that window against this variety's 62 days to maturity and the region's first frost date.
- What Central Maryland gardeners can still sow, Sugar Snap Pea included UMD Extension lists snap pea for Central Maryland; the page measures that window against this variety's 62 days to maturity and the region's first frost date.
- New York City sow-by date for Sugar Snap Pea Cornell CCE lists snap pea for the New York City area; the page measures that window against this variety's 62 days to maturity and the region's first frost date.
- What York County, PA gardeners can still sow, Sugar Snap Pea included Penn State Extension lists snap pea for York County, Pennsylvania; the page measures that window against this variety's 62 days to maturity and the region's first frost date.
Growing profile
- Sun
- Full sun
- Water
- Moderate water; avoid waterlogged soil.
- Soil
- Cool, well-drained soil with support netting.
- Watch
- Heat shortens the harvest window.
- trellis
- early
- snacking
- kids
Browse context
- Vegetable Catalog Category collection
- Legume Family Rotation and family context
- Cool Season Seeds Season collection
- Direct Sow Seeds Start-method collection
- Container-Friendly Seeds Practical trait collection
- Beginner-Friendly Seeds Practical trait collection
- Fall-Planting Seeds Practical trait collection
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