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Homes & Gardens
Homes & Gardens
Drew Swainston

How and when to harvest snap peas for young, tender, and sweet pods

Snap peas growing on a vegetable garden trellis.

Snap peas are crunchy and sweet when harvested at the peak of their ripeness. As they grow and ripen fast, you need to be quick on your feet to pick them before they start to turn tough and lose some of that sought-after sweetness.

Growing snap peas is simple and you can get a fantastic harvest by giving them sun to bask in and keeping plants well-watered as the temperatures rise in summer.

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