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Variety: Amish Snap Strengths: Vines grow 5 to 6 feet tall (1.5 to 1.8 meters tall) Produces for more than six weeks if picked regularly Bonus: Sweet Drawbacks: If it gets hot, they’ll stop producing peas. They like it cold! Other:
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Variety: Amish Snap • Strengths: • Vines grow 5 to 6 feet tall (1.5 to 1.8 meters tall) • Produces for more than six weeks if picked regularly • Bonus: • Sweet • Drawbacks: • If it gets hot, they’ll stop producing peas. They like it cold! • Other: • One of the oldest varieties of snap peas, grown by the Amish community in Pennsylvania. WHO WILL WIN?CONTENDER: TEAM HOLMES WHO WILL GROW THE LONGEST? THE MOST? WHO WILL PRODUCE THE FIRST PEA?
WHO WILL WIN?CONTENDER: TEAM GIBSON • Variety: Marrowfat • Strengths: • Vines grow to 4 feet tall (1.2 meters) • Big, fat peas • Bonus: • One of Thomas Jefferson’s favorite kind of peas. Sometimes he planted them twice a year. • Drawbacks: • Ripens later than other garden peas • Other: • Instead of picked fresh, this pea is dried on the vine. The dried peas must be soaked overnight before being cooked. WHO WILL GROW THE LONGEST? THE MOST? WHO WILL PRODUCE THE FIRST PEA?
WHO WILL WIN?CONTENDER: TEAM DILLANE • Variety: Sutton’s Harbinger • Strengths: • Very early pea • Produces a lot of peas • Bonus: • Sweet • Drawbacks: • Vines are less than 3 feet tall (almost 1 meter tall) • Other: • Won an Award of Merit from England’s Royal Horticultural Society in 1903 WHO WILL GROW THE LONGEST? THE MOST? WHO WILL PRODUCE THE FIRST PEA?