Notes
6-ft Hortonova down bed center, two rows 6 in off the mesh. Sow as soon as soil can be worked. Inoculate. Fall crop 8–10 weeks before first frost.
Cultivars / Legumes
Sugar Snap
Snap Pea · Pisum sativum var. macrocarpon
DTM
62 d
104 d occupancy · hardy
Rows
2
2 in in-row
Density
12
plants / bed-ft
Yield
0.9
lb / bed-ft
Direct $/ft
$4.86
$6.00 / lb
Propagation
- Method
- Direct seed
- Cell size
- —
- Nursery lead
- direct only
- Germination
- 10 d
- Germ temp
- 40°F – 75°F (opt 60°F)
- Seed spacing
- 1½ in
Field geometry · 30 in
- Bed width
- 30 in
- Rows / bed
- 2
- In-row
- 2 in
- Seed spacing
- 1½ in
- Plants / linear ft
- 12
- Plants / 50 ft
- 600
Timeline
- DTM from field
- 62 d
- Holding
- 21 d
- Occupancy
- 104 d
- Multicut
- yes · 8 cuts · 3 d
- Fall photoperiod
- ×1.1
- Frost hardiness
- Hardy
Yield & revenue
- Sales unit
- lb
- Units / bed-ft
- 0.9
- Avg unit wt
- 1 lb
- Target lb / bed-ft
- 0.9 lb
- Cull rate
- 10%
- Wholesale / Direct
- $3.50 / $6.00
Irrigation
- Drip lines / bed
- 2
- Emitter spacing
- 8 in
- Emitter GPH
- 0.42
- Weekly water
- 0.9 in
- GPH / 50 ft
- 63
- Gal / week · 50 ft
- 70.1
Soil extraction
- Fertility demand
- Light
- N / 100 bed-ft
- 0.5 lb
- P / 100 bed-ft
- 0.25 lb
- K / 100 bed-ft
- 1 lb
- N-P-K / 50 ft
- 0.3 / 0.1 / 0.5 lb
- Family
- Fabaceae
On this farm · 50 ft block
- Season window
- 2026-03-04 → 2026-11-10
- First greenhouse
- —
- First harvest
- 2026-05-05
- Successions that fit
- 3 · every 14 d
- Bed-ft for 50 lb
- 62 ft
- Seed for 50 ft
- 706 seeds · 600 plants
- Wholesale / Direct · 50 ft
- $141.75 / $243.00
Companions
carrot · radish · lettuce
Avoid
onion · garlic