English peas have zero tolerance for hot weather. I don't know your summer temps, but I have not lived anywhere where English peas would grow in July-August. Southern peas are the opposite, love heat, intolerant of cold

Okay, I guess my peas will have to wait for fall then. When is the sowing time for fall peas? (I don't care about freeze time shortening harvest ... I'll bring the pot inside.)

Which category do edamame fall into? Can I use the same pot and just cut back the edamame plants when their done to let the fall peas grow? Or will my soil have been too depleted by then?

Edamame is a summer crop. You always add fertilizer with containers. Edamame tends to be a one and done crop so just pull or cut after harvest.

" I have not lived anywhere where English peas would grow in July-August. " Even in England they sulk in August ;-)

BTW a pot of English peas is scarcely worth the effort imo since you need a lot of plants to get a reasonable picking. Mangetout peas would give you a bit more of a crop but even they won't produce much. They'd be a curiosity more than anything. You could grow pole beans on a wigwam in a large container.

I'm not really sure what the difference between mangetout peas and English peas is ... I generally call what I grow snap peas, whichever of the two that is. I also have a pack that calls itself "Now or Later" that claims to be either a snow pea or shell pea depending on when it's picked. My goal isn't really to produce a ton; I grow them because they're fun to grow, and I like to snack on them.

I tried growing them in the raised bed once ... they managed to get to all of about 3" tall before something ate them, and that was with bunny fencing around the beds. Some plants in containers beats plant stubs in the garden.

I have had good luck with a pea variety called Wando. Last year it produced until the middle of July, even with 95-100 temps.

I think it's definitely worth trying, especially if you've got some areas that get a decent amount of shade.

Mangetout you eat the entire pod. (English) peas you shell them and only eat the peas.

I, on the other hand, don't know what snap peas and snow peas are;-) Before Google that is.

I don't grow 'a ton' either. A fifteen foot row provides about 6 pickings for two people.

Well, I planted some soybeans, and since I ran out of dirt while repotting some other things, I checked for Wando peas while I was at the garden center and have planted some of those, too. If they make it, they make it ... if they don't, I'll reuse their dirt for something else ... or just save it for fall planting.

I used the pea and bean fertilizer that I had on both, so fingers crossed!

Snap peas are supposed to be a cross between snow peas and garden peas, according to a website I visited recently. Snow peas are pretty good, and they produce well in my opinion (harvesting every two days or so). You eat the pods. They're supposed to be good for stir fry. Snap peas are supposed to be fatter, perhaps, but you eat the pods. Garden peas are for the seeds (not the pods). Snow peas climb. I'm not sure about snap peas and garden peas, but bush peas exist.

Two years ago I had the most beautiful row of snow peas growing in my bunny-fenced raised bed. When they were about 4" tall, I checked on them and most were just bare stems. The few leaves that remained had large, circular tears. I couldn't find signs of a bug, caterpillar, or slug infestation. The problem? Finches. Apparently they love young pea plants. Strangely, they don't bother my plants when they're older and they never seem to eat the pea pods.

I had been blaming deer for clearcutting peas and edamame in the bed, but it could have been birds; we've got pretty much everything around here.

To update:

The Wando peas are growing quite nicely. They could have used a slightly larger trellis, but they're making do with the tomato tower. My mum gifted me a pea trellis for next year. Some of the peas are plumping up and should be ready for munching in the next couple days.

The edamame had some casualties. I had one seed not germinate, and I replaced it with a bush-type bean, which did come up and has flowers now. Then I had two edamame looking weird, so I pulled them up to keep whatever from spreading. The remaining plants have itty bitty white flowers, which is farther than I've had edamame plants gets before, so I have no idea if that's good progress or slow, but hopefully I'll get some soybeans.