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There are a huge number of pea varieties available in the UK. To make it easier for you to choose the best varieties for your needs we have grouped specific pea varieties according to the following groupings:
Shelling / Garden Peas are the traditional type of pea and are by far the most common type of pea grown and consumed in the UK. We list our recommended varieties below in alphabetic order.
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Avola is a first early garden pea variety. It grows to around 60cm / 24in high, produces small sweet peas and is very hardy. Click here for our full review of this pea variety.
Hurst Green Shaft is a maincrop garden pea variety, growing to around 90cm / 36in high. It has an AGM from the Royal Horticultural Society. High yields and no significant problems. Click here for our full review of this pea variety.
Kelvedon Wonder is a maincrop garden pea variety, growing to around 60cm / 24in high it was given an AGM (Award of Garden Merit) by the RHS in 2011. Click here for our full review of this pea variety.
There are several varieties of climbing garden pea varieties, most of them are quite capable of reaching 1.8m / 6ft high and they tend to produce very large quantities of peas for very little ground space. One particular variety we highly recommend is Alderman / Victorian Colossal.
Recent varieties of sugar snap peas originated from a chance cross in 1952. The pod is less fibrous and stringless compared to a garden pea and sweet enough to be eaten with the peas inside it. Breeding has led to some very tasty sugar snap peas and we list below one dwarf variety which we thoroughly recommend.
Very early harvest time, this variety is the sweetest sugar snap of them all. Suitable for small gardens and containers, see our full review of 'Sugar Ann' peas here.
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