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The pods are a lot easier to find than green ones - quick picking, colourful salads, and if I really want flavour I grow snaps instead - living in hope of a good red or yellow snap soon!Cheers.
author=galina link=topic=81897.msg825888#msg825888 date=1531629823Opal Creek is available commercially: https://www.thompson-morgan.com/p/pea-opal-creek-sugarsnap/tm80803TM
Yellow Opal Creek looks suspiciously like the "Elizabethan yellow mangetout" that I grew years ago - if anyone was going to try and sell a 400+ year-old variety as a novelty then I'd expect the wrynair of seedsmen to do it!They describe it as "the first yellow podded sugarsnap pea available to gardeners", well if it appeared half a millennium ago then that would be true! It has the same lack of a wing that stops it being a normal mangetout, and the same translucent thin pod that stops it being a proper snap pea - they are tender edible pods though, so it's true that you can eat the whole thing. Unfortunately the EYM is round seeded and a bit starchy (when ripe) - no indication what T&M's version is - they say they are sweet - but as they have cleverly shown very immature pods (with no scale to show they are only 3-4cm long) then they will be sweet.Shiraz is definitely better in my book.Cheers.
Unfortunately the EYM is round seeded and a bit starchy (when ripe) - no indication what T&M's version is - they say they are sweet - but as they have cleverly shown very immature pods (with no scale to show they are only 3-4cm long) then they will be sweet.Shiraz is definitely better in my book.
Do try the Sugar Magnolia Vinlander, it is purple like Shiraz, a snap pea and I bet you'll love the flavour too.