Purple's the new color for edible-pod peas. From: Sunset | Date: November 1, 1987 | COPYRIGHT 1987 Sunset Publishing Corp. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

Purple's the new color for edible-pod peas

It's pea-planting time in the mild-winter West, and gardeners have more varieties to choose from than ever, including a strinkingly unusual purple-podded type.

In 1979, seed companies introduced "Sugar Snap'--a new pea you could eat pod and all. It was like Chinese edible-pod peas but plumber in both pea and pod.

In the fall of 1983, we reported a second generation of sugar snaps--dwarf plants only 1 1/2 to...