Yes, I plant sweet peas almost every year, usually at one end or the other of one of my regular rows of peas. The major "problem" with them is the weather. They are kind of a gamble here. If it's a cool to average year, they are fine and can be very beautiful. If its a hot year, they may fizzle out prematurely without having many flowers. The other problem with them is critters. I have had them chewed up pretty badly by woodchucks or rabbits, but this doesn't seem to happen ever time, so I think there are other things that animals might prefer. The earlier you plant them, the better they seem to do -- sow as soon as the soil can be worked. As long as the summer isn't excessively hot (upper 80s and 90s), if you dead head them, they'll bloom quite a bit longer.

Hi Mary, I have Tall Telephone. I'm not sure how many I have. I have enough for a trade maybe a bit more. I'll have to check later. I'm interested in your Scarlet Globe Mallow. Remy

My peas  I just checked the label  are Mayfair shell peas. For some reason, I like peas, flowers, and leaves, but have never developed a taste for the pods. Voles plagued my garden for a couple of years straight and my adventures with them were a running joke among my co-workers. They dug under and bit through (!) the galvanized metal hardware cloth I trenched in ... and they would go up to my mature pea plants and sever them at the base, when not gnawing through brassicas or scarfing down seedlings. I tried setting out traps, caught dozens, and still they kept coming. So I did what any sensible, pea-loving person would do. At the end of last summer I dug a one-foot square trench around the entire garden (that's 200 cubic feet, or more than 7 yards, of excavated sod, soil, and subsoil) and buried a ¼" mesh of 1/16" diameter stainless steel a foot down, a foot out, and two feet above ground, with 4' of deer fence above that. I had the mesh cut into 4' à 20' segments, and each segment weighed 85 pounds ... so that's about half a ton of steel vs. the incisors of the local voles. Worked with a helper to dig the trench, bend the panels of steel, lift them into the trench, and tie them together. Topped them with lengths of "H" channel from Lowe's, into which we inserted 4' tall galvanized deer fence. And that is how I made my garden vole-freeÂ.

You are right about pollinators happy. My neighbor on the back raises bees. The bees come to eat at my garden a lot, I don't mind a bit, we both benefit (and the bees!). In any case, i do not doubt that we have pollinators. The strange thing to me is that the snow peas appear to all have come out true to their parents. This past weekend I examined their flowers and could not tell them apart (the snow pea flowers and the sugar snap flowers). One thing I noticed different is the maturity dates, the sugar snaps are latter. Their flowers look like a replica of one another, so why only one crossed? did the bees only go for the sweetest one? but no, they must have pollen from both in order to cross them. Hmmmm.......pea mystery. The lesson to me is: interplant snow peas if you want, the seed will probably come true. However, if you want to save seeds from the sugar snaps, plant them separately! I saw that I still have some of the original seed, so I am planting them on their own trellis next winter. It is too late for us to plant peas now.