Newsflash—head for cover, it’s a purple rain alert and these sugar snap magnolia snap peas certainly rain down a heavy yield of 3-4” dark purple pods. Certainly a doozy for the retinal and a little sweeter, IMO, then the green ones—harvest often for a larger yield throughout it’s growing season!  Reaching about 5-6ft tall, it will need to be trellised so it can be supported. Plant seeds 1” deep, every 3-4” near your trellis, so it’s tendrils (the threadlike strand for the stem) can find the support and cling on.

Direct seed a month before last frost as they are pretty cold tolerant almanac.com/gardening/frostdates and early spring. Or in late summer, as they will slow down production in extreme heat. Reaching maturity in about 70 days from direct seeding, harvest often about 3-4” as they become more fibrous when too big. A great nitrogen fixer to replenish your soil of nutrients, it pulls in nitrogen for the atmosphere and has a symbiotic relationship with beneficial bacteria (rhizobia) in the soil to create sacks of nitrogen on the pea’s roots and leaving the nutrients back into the soil. Note that was not ChatGPT summary, not an AI puggle on the cover and we aren’t scientists!                  Minimum 60+ seeds.