Mammoth Melting Snow Pea

75 days — The vines reach five feet or more and should be trellised for better results. ‘Mammoth Melting’ is a high yielding variety that thrives in cool weather and is uniform in production. Its pods are very sweet and tender and stay that way even after they reach three inches or more and the seeds start to fill out. Truly “mammoth!”

“Melting” peas are a category of edible podded snow peas believed to have originated in America. ‘Mammoth Melting’ was introduced in 1893 by W. Atlee Burpee.^[3] They described it as:

It was such a hit, that by the end of that decade, most seed companies were offering it to their customers as well. Each ounce is approximately 100 seeds, which is generally enough to plant at least a ten foot row.