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Sugar snap peas score top marks for taste and texture. As with so many crops, home-grown sugar snaps are much sweeter and juicier than anything you can buy in a shop. You can grow them in large containers as well as in beds, as long as they're kept

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't forego the delights of fresh peas.I can turn this lapse into a virtue, though, by participating in an online seed trial conducted by the RHS. They're testing mangetout and sugar snap peas, and are looking for people to grow the trial varieties

Peas are straightforward to grow and are so sweet and delicious when freshly harvested that they can be eaten raw. There are three main types: shelling peas (where only the actual peas are eaten), sugar snaps (where the entire, fleshy pod is eaten