Snow peas are snow peas, not sugar (sweet) peas. Snow peas have thin wall on the pods. The seeds are very tiny when you pick the pods to eat. Sugar/sweet peas are round, fat.

Snow peas are good to eat cooked. Sugar/sweet peas are good for fresh eating or cooked.

Google it. Easy....

Well, yes, that's what I said: snow peas are not sugar snap peas. But burpee and other sites list varieties as both snow and sugar together, so I'm having a hard time googling which varieties are which. So which varieties are snow peas vs sugar snap? Is Oregon Sugar a snow pea or a sugar snap pea? Mammoth melting sugar? Cascadia? Thank you!

'All sugars, are sugar snap'

That is nonsense, just because a name has 'sugar' in it does not mean it is a sugar snap.

Mammoth melting sugar(my favorite), Avalanche, and the various Oregon types are all snow peas. When looking online at the seed vendor sites the snap peas will usually be displayed with a pod opened and the snow peas will not.

Just trying to correct your bad information for the OP Redsun. You remind me of most of the rude and obnoxious people I met when I lived in NJ. Worst 3 years of my life.

I couldn't get out of NJ fast enough. I think you have been rude and offending on almost every post you have made.

Good Example :

http://forums.gardenweb.com/discussions/1720347/planting-schedule-fall-2014?n=23

My apologies to the OP also but wanted them to get the correct information. I agree that some of the vendor websites are confusing since they often group both types together making it difficult to know which type is which. Their seed catalogs seem to do a better job of listing the pea types separately.

Snow pea varieties include Dwarf Grey Sugar, Mammoth Melting Sugar, Dwarf White Sugar, Norli, Oregon Sugar Pod, Avalanche, Golden Sweet, Ho lan Dow, Oregon Giant....

The phrase "sugar snap" is confusing because so many snow pea names contain the word "sugar." It is less confusing to say that there are snow peas with flat edible pods, snap peas with round edible pods and shelling peas with inedible fibrous pods.

Thank you all for the information; it is much clearer now. Yes, I was confused because many of the varieties had "sugar" in the name, yet were listed as snowpeas on various websites. Much thanks to Rodney for redirecting the thread, too. :) Any tips on which one is best for container growing? I'm guessing the Dwarf Grey/White Sugar? I know everyone says don't grow peas in containers, but I really have my heart set on home grown snowpeas... <3

Norli has the most compact vine at 20 inches, The Dwarfs go about thirty inches, Avalanche 36 inches but it is a semi-leafless (afila) type which tend to be easier to control.

I've successfully grown peas in containers in the past.. This spring I grew out a few petit provincial peas (a shelling pea) in a 10" hanging basket to make a seed crop- and that succeeded very well.

Tomorrow I'm seeding in some sugar pod 2 and dwarf grey sugar peas in containers. I will do up two large pots- one a kitty litter bucket, the other a 14 inch landscaping pot- and put in my trellis action to give them support. Because I've found even super short peas can use some support, because most of them are not as short as one might think.

This way I can get in a bit of fall crop, and pull the pots inside to my solarium to extend fall harvest when the frosts hit. This is my first time doing fall peas, so we shall see how it goes, lol.

I've grown many peas in pots and while the harvest isn't as plentiful as from in-ground ones, it works just fine. I use 12" x 12" pots and put a bunch of 5-6' stakes and a wire tomato cage in the middle for the peas to grow up. The tallest peas I've grown this way were 5', which I think is about the limit before things start getting unwieldy and ridiculous. So you have some leeway on size and don't have to pick the dwarfiest dwarfs.

Another addition to the pile of misnamed peas: Arbogast Sugar, which is very definitely not a sugarsnap and indeed is hardly sweet at all.

No disrespect intended, but the first person who replied provided misinformation whether they intended to or not. Types like Oregon Sugar, Mammoth melting sugar, Golden Sweet, Carouby De Maussane, and Dwarf Grey Sugar are all harvested as "snow" or "mangetout" peas for their immature pods. Others like Sugar Snap, Cascadia, Sugar Ann, and Sugar Magnolia, etc are eaten as "Snap" peas. If they are snap types the description will say so. The word "sugar" in olden times referred to snow peas as Snap peas did not exist and are only a modern bred type (1979). In modern times referring to any peas as "sugar peas" will only cause ambiguity and should be avoided. Sometimes the word sugar in a name does not even mean that they have that much sweetness. For example, Golden Sweet is not really all that sweet and could use some breeding work.

I grew a family heirloom that looks like carouby, and a yellow podded snow pea. Both are 6 foot plus in a pot. Here's all the peas i tried in containers. Harvest is smaller but i love garden peas.

My Container Garden Pea Patch: http://youtu.be/X61orexAsy8