‘Bijou’ Giant Sugar Pea

This sort of pea – real old fashioned Giant Sugar Peas with 7 inch edible pods – used to be very popular but are now almost completely extinct.  The huge pods (the peas inside the pod in the photo are full-size) are sweet and juicy, and children just munch them straight off the plant. 

After a 5 year project starting with a handful of peas found in a jar in a cellar, this is our reintroduction of a proper Giant Sugar Pea as used to be grown in the 1880’s. It matches the original description and engravings perfectly, even down to the pattern on the seeds and the number of seeds per gram. We hope you enjoy it! You eat the whole pod raw or cooked. They’re sweet and tender – & so huge that just a few pods are enough for salad or supper. 

We’ve had really good feedback since re-introducing it, with several people saying they would only grow this variety from now on.

Very rare, practically extinct, so a small packet, but you can easily bulk up your supply by saving a few pods worth of seed.