5 Tips How to Grow a Ton of Snow Peas
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- Опубліковано 9 лют 2025
- In this video, I give you my five top tips on how to grow a ton of snow peas so if you want to know how to grow lots of peas watch this vid!
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Self Sufficient Me is based on our small 3-acre property/homestead in SE Queensland Australia about 45kms north of Brisbane - the climate is subtropical (similar to Florida). I started Self Sufficient Me in 2011 as a blog website project where I document and write about backyard food growing, self-sufficiency, and urban farming in general. I love sharing my foodie and DIY adventures online so come along with me and let's get into it! Cheers, Mark :)
G'day Everyone, firstly thanks for your support! I didn't elaborate much on the "price" of snow peas in this video but as an afterthought, I do think it is worth saying that even when in season this vegetable is expensive to buy from the supermarket. You might find them cheaper or more expensive but conservatively they cost around $20 AU per kg (2 lbs) on average and that is significant so definitely worth growing as a cost-saving alone! Anyway, just thought I'd mention that... Also, feel free to check out my website I'm in the process of improving my site and this should be complete within the next several weeks. I am slowly developing a "support page" where I log all the products and "stuff" I use and promote as a way to help keep my channel, blog, and forum going and thus keep creating content as relying on UA-cam alone is a fickle and unstable business model lol... selfsufficientme.com/support-self-sufficient-me Finally, I've been reading and receiving more than usual messages lately from people who are finding it hard to cope during the current issues facing the world. Gardening might not fix these problems but it can help you better manage the stress they cause so please - Get Into It! Cheers :)
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I’m growing some mammoth melting snow peas right now so this video came in handy, thanks! I agree that gardening will not solve the current stresses of the world right now but can help manage them. Having a hobby like this really helps your outlook and connection to nature
Looks like you dropped some kg’s
Do you think you could ever do a video on different soil types? I know you have done videos on clay soil, but in particular my yard has extremely rocky soil, and It's simply impractical to dig all of those rocks outs, I'm talking like 3-4 mini rocks per handful of soil! Does this impact any growth of vegetables and if so, which ones and which ones may not mind it? I think it would be a very interesting topic to discuss. Good video as always!
*MARK!!! Do you have an email we can send you question on our garden?*
My snow pea just kept growing this year, with no flowers. I did some research and discovered that I fertilised the bed at the wrong time and there was probably too much nitrogen. It was suggested that I add potash to trick them into flowering. I experimented and added pot ash to one side of the snow pea bed. In a day the flowers came out on that side. I thought this might be handy to someone out there.
wow, thank you so much!!
Yes, thank you! I have apparently “loved” my peas a little too much with the fertilizer...💜
I learned two things. Second was how to pronounce 'potash.' Thanks
Yes very handy thanks
no dig using quality compst requires no additives
After 13 years of a toxic marriage, Ive been on my own since November. I never though I would be a gardner, but apparently growing plants has been the best therapy ever, 😆
Started with a single plant on the porch. That grew into dozens of houseplants and even more outside.
Then the food gardening began. Its only been a few months now of growing veggies, but I am proud when I have peopke over, because everything is growing so well. And I owe almost all of it to your videos. I googled a vid on carrots I think and found your channel. You really have a natural gift for teaching in an amazing way. I just wanted to say thanks for doing these and I fully intend to start at the beginning and watch every single one.
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Yes, gardening is the best therapy. Prayers for total healing ❤️🩹
I can't decide if I'm married to my garden or my dogs, either way, everyone is happy.
Totally relate to you! ❤️
Blessings
Now I know why I've never liked snow peas. They're never crunchy in the supermarket. I've only had the sad floppy ones
I have been binge-watching you for days and I must say your content is fantastic. Informative and educational, straight-talking as you practically demonstrate with no hint of condescension or trying to sell you something. And no click-bait thumbnails. Excellent, just excellent. This is what should be taught in our schools.
I agree
Dried or dehydrated peas make a great addition to soups and stews. I really love that you mentioned fermentation, not only as a way of storing produce, but also a great way of enhancing the flavor and feeding our gut biome. So many things that most Americans eat destroys their gut biome and so few things restore it as well as naturally fermented foods.
Hear hear yes great advise.
these snow peas are the most insane survival food, survives cold, you can eat them as they are, you can let them dry right o nthe plant right into seeds, and save those to eat (in cold harsh winter..... trust me...) or grow again.
@@dfgdfbsdfvv832 Agreed, and ways to eat stored dried peas include sprouts or young greens. Yum!
The Steve Irwin of Nature...
☮️RIP Steve... his enthusiasm for crocs and gators was/is infectious and I live in Florida! I think Mark is very much like Steve not because he’s Australian but because he has so much enthusiasm for his garden that it really makes me feel like I can grow anything too... so thank you Mark for your constant and infectious gardening vids... we CAN do it too AND together we CAN change the current vibes of the planet from dread to world peas...🌱☮️🌱
Yes! He also reminds me of Russell Crowe, another Aussie.
@@LucyJazzy85 LOL...World Peas! hahaha...
✌❤ crikey
You're spot on !
I am growing snow peas for the first time in my south Louisiana raised bed garden. I just stuck some pea seeds in the ground and they grew like crazy!!! I have about a 4 foot line of them and harvested about 3 handfuls today! I ate a few raw and am going to steam them for supper!!!
I really appreciate when you show spiders and other critters ‘protecting’ your garden. I still jump and run away when I find one but I’m working on seeing them as signs of life in a symbiotic relationship, but it’s hard sometimes!
I noticed that he used a twig to move the spider. Good plan…
You guys do have some big critters! A huntsman fixed my hate for our little tiny spiders over here! Blessings from Across the ditch!
My hubby isn't scared of them, thank goodness 😅 He'll get the spider areas for me. Also, ones found on the porch and in home he'll move them somewhere... Doesn't warn me where 😂 I'm assuming he's putting them in the veggie garden.
Great video, Mark! A while back my husband came home from the gardening store with seed packets including (among other things) peas. Okay, I thought, you don't like peas and tend to pick around them in stir fry and other dishes, but whatever. To my surprise, he's been intensely interested in the growing process and has apparently decided that training the vines up through the trellis is his personal responsibility. (Works for me, as the shorter of the two of us. 😄)
And to my surprise, apparently he loves eating peas if he's grown them himself. Next time we're going to plant twice as many rows and also do better on the succession planting.
That's pretty cool! We have another convert to the joys of food gardening (and homegrown eating) lol... Cheers :)
That's the way it went with my kids and tomatoes :-)
I think most kids (also) will eat what they help grow.
i love them raw in salads or just pick and eat too!
I always disliked peas, but I grew some for my mother when I first began to garden because they were easy to grow in a pot and produced quickly. Was I ever stunned to discover I love peas, if fresh from the garden! I had no idea they are so sweet and delicious and taste nothing like the ones I had previously tasted. That made me determined to grow every vegetable I thought I didn't like in order to see if the same thing happened. Well, I still dislike radishes and beets, but everything else has been great. Indeed, Asian eggplant is now a favorite vegetable, along with fava beans. I now try anything exotic or in an unusual color, it's so much fun! It's not the time I invested that turned me around; it's the fact that there is a big taste difference for some things, but everything tastes better, in general. Not everything is radically different, but even sweet corn, which is still pretty terrific when store bought, is better home-grown.
I grow my peas on my fence. Fence is there, might as well make use of it!
Mark...Texas Native here growing TONS of food myself. I just wanted to pop in and say how much I love your show just for the fellowship. Keep rocking, brother! 😎🤟🏼🇺🇸
G'day Christopher and thanks mate! Much appreciated! All the best :)
You know Mark, I live in a small studio apartment by San Francisco, California. My landlord won't even allow me to have a window box, but I just love watching your videos and I could watch them all day. Hopefully some day I'll be able to afford a place with a yard so I can put some of your excellent advice to work. I might even get a dog too. All the best to you!
I was able to grow microgreens and herbs on the kitchen countertop.
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Hopefully you can try and grow something inside by a sunny window! Basil, rosemary, or try sprouting! It's fun!
Your comment made me so 😔 😔 sad
@@Dragon-wl5ic Don't be! I live here by choice because I love it even though I do have to make some compromises. I appreciate the sentiment though. Cheers!
The pea plant has aided civilization for many millenia. Given a good environment they just want to grow. Nearly every part of the plant is edible. Pea leaves can be eaten raw or cooked. I'd eat the flowers if not waiting patiently for pods. Seeing this video I'm going to branch out and grow snowpeas, too. I say this as I cook a pot of split pea soup and watch my indoor pea plants reach for the ceiling. You can almost watch them grow!
An interesting note for anyone familiar with the Eastern Redbud tree, native to the Americas. It is a true legume that produces edible pods that taste like snowpeas when picked young and green. We pick bushels of them and freeze them each year, after a quick blanching.
I love how every week he get more and more into his pickling hobby and brings us along with him on his journey.
Canada here, so glad I found you. Lots of good tips & good fun. Just have to turn the seasons around & I guess you don't get 6 ft. of snow in January.
Like this bloke; so down to earth, not trying to be a celebrity gardener.
The leaves are also fantastic to eat!
Ive been saving my own snow pea seeds for several years they can grow a few meters tall
They are growing well with my tomatoes this year :)
Ive tried growing them all over my garden and yes they can take some snow or light frosts i live in Ontario and i can vouch for them living through some light snow
Thanks for talking about saving some for seeds
Excellent video. Love your content. I retired 12 months ago and have the time and space to expand beyond my usual 6 tomato and 2 basil plants!!! I now have cukes , habaneros , spinach , radish, carrots and onions for a fall crop in Ca.
Thank You . Such a beautiful presentation and so clear and informative. This very northern New Yorker is hooked : ). Namaste
I always interspersely plant all my crops with onion and/or garlic as I find it helps keep pest bugs away very effectively.
I LOVE you! I have been watching your channel now for about 3 weeks or so. I LOVE Snow peas, in stir fry. I eat alot of Stir fry. This will be my second year growing Snow peas. I did not know they were a cool season crop. The first time I grew them in the spring into summer. This time I am ready! Thank you for all your tips. You are AMAZING!
Your garden is a dream! What a beauty!!! And, you can freeze your fresh peas up to 6 months and they will preserve their flavor and nutrients. Love your channel man! Keep up the great job.
Growing some in my garden this year. Pray for the Lord's blessing for me! God bless.
This is my first year of growing fruit&veg myself.
Peas are one of the easiest, and most producing crops I have in the garden. As Mark said, they can grow pretty well in containers.
I’m planting sugar snap pea seedlings soon. Good tips thanks 😊
My wife and I used to have a running conversation on weather snow peas or sugar peas were best. But now we've done it so long neither can remember which side the other side was for
Hahaha
Sugar peas just can’t grow enough to be ready to can
It's easy: whichever you just picked 😁
@@tessasilberbauer6219 true! both are great
Sugar daddies!😄
Wow, that's a lot of Peas! I have always only grown a few pea plants at a time and not one pod has made it into the house as I eat them while tending to the garden :) Next spring I will try this variety and put a lot more of them. THANKS!
I live in Melbourne Florida which I believe has a very similar climate as you do. I do most of my gardening in the fall/winter months. To hot and humid here in the summer. Peas are one of my favorite veggies. I already have my seeds ready and waiting for fall. I will also be growing in raised beds. I would also be interested in seeing a video on how to preserve them. Always enjoy your videos. Keep em coming.
Thank you, another fantastic learning video. You are amazing and so enjoyable to watch.
The cost of snow peas now in Western Australia is $30 a kilo! I decided to grow them when I couldn’t afford to buy them and thanks to your tips I’ve got snow peas for my family and many others I’ve shared around with! So thrilled and was my first time ever growing peas and my first plant growing in a different climate to what I’m use to
Officially my favorite dad joke garden show! Your garden is amazing and your rhyming puns are even better!!!
the bee's knees ... LMFAO that is 1 of my favorite sayings!! Started peas this week, how timely.
LOL...
? Peas knees?
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Only thing missing here is snacking along the way. I so want to be munching those. :D
This is my first year with my official garden. I'm learning so much from you! Thank you so much! I was so afraid I planted too many peas. They all came up. I only had a net for them to climb on but I will go get the metal grading. Thanks again, happy planting!😎 BuilderSue
What a beautiful setup
I'm going to attempt growing snow peas for the first time this year. Thanks for the great info on them. I just got into fermenting recently and am excited to try the peas that way!
Blessings and thanks for sharing 👍
I never liked peas until i grew my own. I love them straight off the plant. I love when my grans come over and we hit the pea patch. They think it’s cool to eat them. thanks for all the information. This is really going to help my garden. Thanks for your videos!
True! So many veggies taste better homegrown - thank you Nancy! :)
Great video. Thank you for the beneficial information.
The dad puns were strong in this one. He doesn’t skip a beat when he makes the joke either, just keeps on moving through his script. Bravo, man. Bravo
The fun of watching pea plants grow and climb is a reason by itself to give them a go. The plants with hands!
Perfect! I got myself an arched trellis for my snow peas. Hope mine grow as successfully as yours! I reckon they will after watching this vid 👌
Very helpful information you are providing.Highly appreciated
I love snow/snap peas! So easy to grow and the harvest is always bountiful. Also delicious for snacking. I prefer them uncooked. I have a few varieties growing in my container garden. Thanks for the tips Self Sufficient Me.
I live in an arid region and my sugar snap peas are grown in partial shade sandy soil and watered every 2 days. I also bought them as seedlings. They're definitely not as big as if I'd planted seeds direct in better soils, but they've handled to lighting and bi-daily water very well. Looking forward to next season when I'll have a better bed set up for them and will be planting the seeds of this year's biggest and best fruiter ❤
That milk remedy is old school. I use it on my gooseberry if they get a mildew. My grandad used this idea last century.
You can also use eco-fungicide. Cheers :)
I guess vegan milk won't work, huh xD
Would the aspirin spray work here or just milk
Wow- thanks for all the follow-up tips on storage, how long they are good for, nutritional info and how to use them in fermentation type info!!!👍 very comprehensive! I LOVED THIS VIDEO!
Lovely looking at your crop as I'm hiding inside the house from the excessive heat. Makes me have hope for my garden in the future. "There's always next year!"
I planted 60ft of peas close together. I harvested over 3 gallons of peas to eat plus more than 2lbs of seeds for next year. They are one of my favorite plants to grow besides hot peppers.
Couldn't be more pea-leased with the timing of this release, my peas are putting out their first pods. Excited to plant a winter crop as well!
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Same here.
Same! I was starting to think those vines were a bust but then the prettiest flowers and the cutest pods started appearing last week! I counted 8 today...waiting to see how big they get, and whether the rest of the vines will produce. :)
Prepared my snowpea patch with hand garden tools . Lightly dressed soil with Wood ash from household fire.
pH range 6.5 - 7.5
Picking companion radish now sweet as apples.
Using a Holman weeper hose for irrigation.
Erected a hinge joint fencing mesh for trellis before planting.
Waiting for flowers , ATM.
Plants growing well
I'm impressed, and I love them too! I'll plant some after the August heat dies down here in Florida.
For only being in my late 20’s i consider myself an advanced gardner. Always learn good info from your vids, but preservation is something I’m not to cultured in. Thanks for the awesome info at the end about lacto preservation
Love your videos! For whatever reason growing peas was a challenge until last year and the crop was bountiful. Love your set up
I'm on the other side of the world from you and it is much colder! I'm putting my peas in the ground here for beginning of May and I still expect a couple frosts! I subscribed for the quail information and I was so glad to see your familiar face when I decided to plant my peas today. Thank you!
I would love to see your fermented vegetable recipe. YUM!
I can't believe you aren't using lady bugs for aphids. The first year I gardened, I had thousands of aphids so I bought lady bugs. They didn't just take care of my garden - they took care of my neighbor's garden too. She said I am amazed we don't have aphids this year. I said - you can thank me for that : ) Even in the harsh Wisconsin weather, they came back year after year.
"Mark, intro take one!"
Mark, "Let's pea into it!"
"Take two!"
Mark, "Let's get pea'd. Or is that pissed?"
"Take three!"
Mark, "Let's snap into it."
"Okay, take a pea! I mean take five! Ugh."
Had me laugh at them all 🤣🤣🤣. Great video👍👍
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Thank you always love your videos an humorous ways! From Indiana in the USA
You have been a great resource since I started Gardening & I have my own tip for you that I have learnt since..
Foliar feed with Bamboo Vinegar & compost tea.
Complex wood vinegars helps repel pest and helps fight fungal infections while aiding in the absorbtion of the compost tea, but it's not a biocide. This just helps the plants fight off the infection itself. The compost tea acts like an IV drip of nutrition & helps strengthen the plant while reducing the need to run irrigation.
Using wood vinegar replicates the effect of the smoke from a fire event within a natural ecology. This has the benifit of producing more nutrient dense crops as well & allows your plants to put more energy into their root systems.
This reduces the amount of soil prep required, allowing you to save labour and redirect resources. I just add biochar charged with worm castings, & some rock dust & produce my own mulch through chop and drop between croppings. The primary substrate I use for worm bedding isn't even manure- its hardwood sawdust & works just as well
I haven't had to irrigate or directly water since July of last year using this system. The water retention in the soil & the foliar feeding once a week is enough for our plants to thrive.
I use Bamboo because it's high in Silica & bamboo produced alot of biomass fast, but other wood vinegars works as well & is relatively easy to produce on site.
One of my favorite easy low maintenance winter container garden plants
Love snow peas my mom gave me a packet of seed 2 yrs ago which she bought yrs ago and every single seed grew. It was awesome, the only issue I had was I didn’t have a tall enough trails.
Really enjoy your videos!! 😊
🤩what a harvest. Better than anything I've seen in a fruit and veg dept. I remember snow peas getting so expensive, I would count out 8 or 10 to buy so I could to put in my stir fry.
Holy shit that spider was huge!
I already respect this guy because of his gardening. That he's doing this in australia makes it even more amazing.
*Tess* What are you talking about? That was just a Huntsman spider - they won't hurt you. See the way he just shunted it out of the garden bed and it ran away. Australia is an amazing place and not as scary as some of you people seem to think. But don't tell everyone, we want to keep this place to ourselves to enjoy!
Your videos are keeping me sane lately Mark, thank you for the well rounded gardening information and cracker jokes. Refreshing to see an authentic true blue attitude, you’re an absolute gem of a human. Best wishes
Un pea lievable.. Made me laugh..
Yeah and the : "thats the peas-iness"
@@emmlila i switched that n with an s hah..
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I second that
hahaha thats the best those puns are contagious
I've been growing lots of sugar peas this year. Zone 5, North America, doing great! Only my dog likes them too, so whenever I pick one, she wants me to open it up and share. Crazy puppy.
Thank you for this. I’m about to plant peas for a fall/early winter harvest in US (GA).
you are such a welcome and relaxing diversion from the nonsense and stress of the world! Thanks!
I too would love a video on your fermentation/sauerkraut method for veggies. Even thought I am in a different growing zone (UK) I find your videos useful and entertaining.
I simply can't tell you how ,uch I love your channel. I've learned so much. Thank you for the content. Please keep it coming.
"Here in our winter time" (Sun shining, wearing a teeshirt, birds singing)
boy do i envy you.
Also fantastic videos. love your attitude towards challenges and problems you explain from practical experience. Not everything is translatable to canadian growing seasons but a lot is.
🇨🇦same here.
This is so helpful! I’m growing my first crop of snow peas in zone 5b in western New York, and I’m so excited.
So hilarious, you roll through jokes without even stopping.
Thank you especially for the tip about watering at the roots.Ive loved Snow Peas since childhood, my Mother being British but born in Japan. Im afraid to put up a metal trellis in Florida where the temps can be 90- 100+.
You inspire me every year to get cracking in my garden :) im in South Australia and just planted out a full seed tray of mammoth melting snow peas i save the seed from and regrow every year ... Great job Mark and fantastic looking row of peas . ( ps this year my direct sown ones also escaped the mice so im going to have a ton of peas too !
This is a really brilliant channel. I'm just about to start a raised bed, walled vege garden and this channel, beyond every other channel I've watched, is incredibly helpful. Thank you so much for all your efforts.
Hi Mark from the San Diego outback, and thanks for another fine and informative video! Parts of the vid (about aphids and other plant pests and diseases) again remind me to ask if you have experimented with using Neem oil (spray)or Neem leaves (decoction spray or as mulch). Years ago when I was able to garden I found it to be perfect against white flies, spider mites, aphids and other pests, especially because it's totally non-toxic (people can and do eat the leaves). I think that Neem may even be helpful against plant diseases, but don't know. Well, I sure wish that someone (hint hint) would do some experimenting with it in his garden; it could be a real boon to gardeners and farmers everywhere. Anyway, keep up the great work Mark!
Mark, I think my favorite parts of this video were the squeaky noise when you were snipping the pods with scissors (reminded me of the way they squeak when you eat them raw, and the bees with their faces in the blossoms. Thanks for such a fun and informative video!
Hi Mark, thanks for sharing the wisdom. Can you show us your fermentation recipes please?
Thanks!
I'm growing snowpeas, they were going great until the gusty winds we had in Brisbane last week bashed them around a bit. Even though they were on a trellis. Will have to tie down to the trellis like you suggest in case we get more of those Ekka winds in the coming weeks. Thanks Mark.
Yes those winds Nicola can be terrible on our crops here... Cheers :)
@@Selfsufficientme you got mentioned a couple of times on Costa Georgiadis live stream this morning, couple of us told him he should check you out, he said he would.
Great tip on the fermenting. I do it with most vegetable san I had not tried peas. Thanks Mark.
A few more weeks and I'm dropping snow peas in the ground for fall harvest. One of mine and my son's favorites from the veggie garden.
I like using a drip system with most all my veggies. It helps to not spread disease and gets the water where it's needed
Good day loves!
😄good day!
Snow peas are one of my favorites! I never tried them fermented but I will this season. Thank you for all the info, I just noticed your site in the last week and I can't stop watching! My growing season is just about to start so I've been working so hard that I am exhausted. Just built 3 new raised beds along with my 3- 3' x 50' existing.
Seriously. Uploaded at 1am Sunday morning..
Lol and I'm watching it 🤣
Thank you :)
thank you sir/you did hard work.
Mark, do you have any videos on fermentation and preserving? I'm hoping to get some good harvests from my garden when it starts producing and since I live on my own I can't eat it all, so I need to learn to preserve, would love to see some good videos on the process.
snow peas are one of my favorite vegetables. i eat frozen almost every day. Thank you!
I grow snap peas and love to lunch on them straight out of the garden.
Me too...and my toddler seems to get most of that tomatoes too.
My work co-gardener likes to grow peas at work so her dog doesn't eat the lot. The dog drools in expectation of pea harvest while she plants at home.
Only just found this chanel thanks for all the info . I Love your simple no non-seance way of of doing food growth.
‘That’s what I’m talkin about’ haha totally pealicous!
Just planted my snow peas and beans! GROW!!!! thank you!!
Have you given any thought to trying No Dig on any of your beds?
I'm getting slightly better crops for significantly less effort by going No Dig on a couple of beds & will cease digging the rest of my beds from now on. I'll just add 2" of home made compost on top of the soil once a year from now on.