Pea Oregon Sugar Pod Seeds – Sweet Mangetout

📝 Description:

Pea ‘Oregon Sugar Pod’ – Mangetout Variety
Bring home a garden favourite with this delicious, easy-to-grow mangetout! Oregon Sugar Pod is a heavy-cropping, compact variety that produces flat, sweet pods perfect for stir-fries, salads, or fresh from the garden. Great for beginners and seasoned gardeners alike.

📦 What's Included:

• Fresh seeds (choose quantity from drop-down)

• Sowing & growing instructions

• Packed in a recyclable, labelled envelope

🌿 Sowing & Growing Instructions:

When to Sow:

• Indoors: February to April

• Outdoors: March to June

• Succession sow every 2-3 weeks for a longer harvest

How to Sow:

• Sow 3–5cm deep in rows or pots

• Space seeds 5cm apart, with 45cm between rows

• Water gently and keep moist

🌿 Best Companion Plants for Mangetout (Pea ‘Oregon Sugar Pod’)

Peas are nitrogen-fixers, making them great companions for many plants!

✅ Good Companions

• Carrots – benefit from the nitrogen peas add to the soil.

• Radishes – quick growers that don’t compete for space.

• Lettuce – enjoys the partial shade provided by pea plants.

• Spinach – also shade-loving and thrives in similar cool weather.

• Turnips / Beetroot – root crops that benefit from nitrogen-rich soil.

• Nasturtiums – deter aphids and blackfly, common pea pests.

• Cornflowers – attract pollinators and beneficial insects.

🚫 Plants to Avoid Near Mangetout

These either compete or increase disease/pest risk:

• Onions / Garlic – can inhibit pea growth due to root secretions.

• Leeks / Shallots – same family as onions, best planted elsewhere.

• Potatoes – compete for nutrients and increase risk of blight.

Growing Tips:

• Support with netting or canes as they grow (height: ~1m)

• Harvest regularly to encourage more pods

• Best picked young and flat before peas start bulging

When to Harvest:

• From ~10-12 weeks after sowing

• Typically May to August, depending on sowing time

🇬🇧 Grown and packed in the UK
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