Mammoth Melting Sugar
🌿✨ Mammoth Melting Sugar Pea Seeds 25+ Seeds/Pack · Huge pods. Tender texture. Heirloom snow pea royalty. · Meet Mammoth Melting Sugar, the classic heirloom snow pea that proves bigger can be better — when done right. · This tall-tre...
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- 2026
🌿✨ Mammoth Melting Sugar Pea Seeds
25+ Seeds/Pack
Huge pods. Tender texture. Heirloom snow pea royalty.
Meet Mammoth Melting Sugar, the classic heirloom snow pea that proves bigger can be better — when done right.
This tall-trellising giant produces:
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Massive 5–6 inch pods
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Sweet, tender, stringless texture
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Crisp bite that holds in cooking
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A steady avalanche of harvests
If you like snow peas that actually taste like… something?
This is your variety.
A heritage treasure with real gourmet chops.
🌱 Why Grow Mammoth Melting Sugar
| Trait | Why it matters |
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| Heirloom snow pea | Proven flavour + reliability |
| Extra-large pods | More to crunch, more to sauté |
| Tender & stringless | No chewy fibrous nonsense |
| Climbing vines | Huge production on small space |
| Cold tolerant | Ideal for spring & fall in Canada |
| Pollinator-friendly | Bees love the blossoms |
Height: 5–6 ft (trellis recommended)
Days to maturity: 65–70
These vines work like vertical salad factories.
🍽 Flavor & Kitchen Uses
Think buttery sweetness + crisp snap.
Stays tender, even when the pods size up — that’s the magic.
Best for:
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Stir-fries
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Tempura
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Spring pastas
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Sesame oil pan-sauté
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Raw garden snacking (straight off the vine 🤌)
Chef tip: Flash-sear with garlic + white miso + rice vinegar.
Finish with sesame seeds.
Swoon.
The pods, shoots, and flowers?
All edible and delicious.
👨🌾 Growing Notes
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Direct sow early spring or late summer
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Loves cool weather; hates summer scorch
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Provide a trellis — this beast climbs
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Harvest continuously to keep vines producing
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Mulch soil to maintain cool roots + moisture
Peas are nature’s garden candy — don’t even pretend you’ll cook them all.
🌟 Highlights
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Historic heirloom snow pea
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Huge, tender, stringless pods
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Vigorous climbing vines = high yields
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Exceptional flavour + plate appeal
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Great for home gardens, chefs, and CSA boxes
Mammoth Melting Sugar isn't just a pea —
it’s the snow pea that ruined all others for you.
Start indoors 8–10 weeks before last frost. Germinate at 26–30 °C on a heat mat; peppers stall below 22 °C. Pot up to 10–15 cm before hardening off outside after nights stay above 12 °C.
Feed balanced through bloom, then bump potassium for fruiting. Stake taller varieties. More detail in our full Canadian growing guide.
Match the pepper to the technique: thin-walled varieties blister fast in a hot pan; thick-walled ones roast or stuff beautifully; fruit-forward ones make balanced sauces and pickles. The variety's flavour profile is your shortcut — see Choosing the right pepper for a use-case guide.
























