Vegetables
Heredity: Open Pollinated
Hybridizer or Originator: Alan Kapuler
Days to harvest: 70

General Plant Information (Edit)
Plant Habit: Vine
Life cycle: Annual
Sun Requirements: Full Sun
Water Preferences: Mesic
Plant Height: 5-6 feet
Fruit: Showy
Flowers: Showy
Flower Color: Bi-Color
Uses: Vegetable
Edible Parts: Fruit
Eating Methods: Raw
Cooked
Dynamic Accumulator: Nitrogen fixer
Propagation: Seeds: Self fertile
Sow in situ
Pollinators: Self

Image
Common names
  • Pea
  • Garden Pea
Botanical names
  • Accepted: Lathyrus oleraceus
  • Synonym: Pisum sativum

Photo Gallery
Location: Ingleside. Illinois
Date: 2022-05-31
First bloom.
Location: all photos from my garden
Date: 2020-04-17
Location: Ingleside. Illinois
Date: 2022-03-23
Seedlings.
Plant Events from our members
antsinmypants On May 30, 2022 Bloomed
antsinmypants On March 15, 2022 Plant emerged
2 seedlings emerged.
antsinmypants On March 13, 2022 Seeds sown
Soaked seeds 24 hours.
Indoors under lights.

16 seeds.
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