Late winter is when I get frost tolerant stuff in the ground like peas. As a child, I thought sugar snap peas was the best thing. They were available ONLY if my parents went to a Chinesse restaraunt and that didn't happen often. The local markets didn't stock them.
On the other hand, my mother loved to garden and my father would grudingly help. They pressed me into the high dread part of gardening: soil preperation. That's when I discovered garden seeds. Hey, sugar snap peas were available in seed catalogs. A light went on. My parents let me plant a row of sugar snap peas. The peas loved mid winter weather of Florida and sandy soil. A bumper harvest came in daily until the brutal heat of Florida arrived and killed them all.
My parents got tired of eating bumper crops of peas after the second harvest. They didn't want anything to do with them. However once the supermarkets decided to stock sugar snap peas, things changed. The store price for the same peas was out the roof. We could be eating mail order steaks for those prices.
That was the year we started planting four rows of sugar snap peas instead of one row. Funny how taste change. Winter is when all the seed catalogs arrive for us and I start looking at all the stuff not available locally and try to see if I can grow it.
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Feel free to reply to any comment by clicking the "Reply" button.I love having a veggie garden, I hope to have one again one day 
girlwithsmiles
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Mar 5, 2020
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I love sugar snaps & eat them with my breakfast almost daily. I also toss them into stir frys. My husband wants to try growing them this year.
Lilac-JadeCanada
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Mar 4, 2020
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Get ye to Old Farmer's Almanac. While it contains a pound and a quarter of baloney (especially for weather forecasts), it does tell when and which plant to plant for your agriculture zone. Ignore the DAY you're suppose to plant, just look at the month to plant.
With sugar snaps, it's the around the day of the last killing frost. I've seen sugar snaps come back AFTER a killing frost.
I'm lucky to live near a major land grant agriculture university (Clemson University). I can get SUCH expert advice. Do they have master gardener programs where you live?
@WonderWartHog99 My husband is the gardener & took agriculture courses years ago. He's built a greenhouse to give an extra month or so of growing for some things.
We're in the middle of British Columbia, Canada, with a short growing season. He's had success with broccoli, cauliflower, strawberries, melons, peas, green beans, bell peppers, cabbages, cucumbers, tomatoes, & even celery one year. Lettuces, & onions don't seem to work.
The neighbours have success with the roots, carrots, potatoes, beets, etc., & we all share our produce.
He likes to try one new thing each year, & this time the sugar snaps were mentioned along with sui choy.
@Lilac-Jade I often grow culinary herbs, learning in the process all the types of basil they have. Going to the farmer's markets, I often learn about relatively exotic vegetables that CAN grow here but the supermarkets NEVER carry.
@WonderWartHog99 Yes, we've had parsley, thyme, chives, rosemary, & several basils.
@Lilac-Jade Wild garlic chives grow in profusion here. Mowing the yard smells like soup.
@WonderWartHog99 Yummy.
I love seed catalogues
whiskywoman
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Mar 4, 2020
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Seed catalog companies sell their mailing list to other seed companies.
If you get one seed catalog, another will be following it especial if you buy seeds from any of them.
@WonderWartHog99 I know I get several and I get trees from arbor day catalogue
@whiskywoman I used to go to Superseed.com for the best varieties of seeds. I forget the name of the company and the web site is down. They had CHEAP packets of seeds but they might only have 20 seeds to the packet. When I wasn't sure WHAT plants I could grow, I'd order from them.
It's been such a long time since I ordered from them, I forgot the name of the company.
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