Tom Thumb Garden Pea

I'm a balcony vegetable gardener so I'm always on the lookout for hybrids that will provide high yields in small space. I was really excited for these peas! They were a bit slow to start - I planted three seeds, and I was almost ready to start something else in that pot, but one by one, they came up. After that, really easy care and they started flowering and producing pods really quickly. And they really are super cute plants. The peas taste good, but they just don't produce enough for more than garden snacking. I'm going to switch to a small, bush style pea variety, instead of this tiny dwarf. I do think this would make great spring ground cover!

At first I tried to grow a couple of these indoors and they didn't do very well. A plant would produce 2-3 tiny pods with 1-2 peas inside and then it would dry up and die. Then I planted a bunch in my garden, and the plants few to be much better. The plants are compact, but they had beautiful large leaves and the pods were quite large for a small plant, with 4-5 peas per pod! Will definitely order more next year!

Yield is very low, this is for snacking - planted 8 plants, three in the ground and 5 in pots and barely had a handful of pods.

These compact plant were a lot of fun to grow, they don't take long to germinate, have very tasty fruits and are great to grow with children. We reserved many times indoors and outdoors. A new household favorite!!!

I have very little space with which to garden on a small balcony with limited light. That said, These grew great. I had several inside in a pot and they did just "ok" very little peas and these were done fast. But then I had a plant die outside on the balcony and though why not plant a few of these in a small 3x9x6 container and they did FANTASTIC. had several coming off for weeks, just a pretty little plant and not enough to cook with but nice to go out and snack on while you are tending to the other plants. I planted all summer long and always had 100% germination rate, mostly I had sprouts within 2-4 days when I started the seeds inside.