The tastiest sugar snap peas

[RottenAppleAdam]

Hello,

A few years ago I grew the tastiest sugar snap peas I've every tasted. They were called Sugar Lord and won an AGM from the RHS. They grew very tall, were super sweet, tasted lovely raw, and there were loads of them on each plant. (Happy days).

I bought them from Marshalls who don't sell them anymore. No idea why. I didn't save any of the seed either and now I really wish I did. I've looked, and can't find them anywhere else. If you like sugar snap peas, this is the one I think you should grow.

Does anyone have any of them kicking around that they might sell or swap? If I can get growing them again it be great to pass the seed around since they were soooo good.

Otherwise, can anyone recommend something that almost might be as good. (Last year I tried Sugar Ann which wasn't half as good).

Cheers,

Adam

[RottenAppleAdam]

[goodlife]

Here is the award info for the variety..
http://apps.rhs.org.uk/agm/Award3.asp?ID=163117

I've looked current cupplier lists..and there is no nursery in RHS lists for this variety..so now its down to finding somebody who saves these seeds to themselves.

Sorry I can't be anymore help..but I keep my 'feelers' on..who knows..amount of seed savers we know..it might pop up from somewhere. I'm certainly interested trying them myself,,now that you've made such a 'big noise' about them.. ;D ;)
Hang about..they might surface.. ;)

[realfood]

I agree that Sugar Lord was the best sugar snap type. I suspect that it was too tall for the amateur market.
Most of the sugar snap peas on the RHS list are dwarfs. Of medium height is sugar dwarf sweet Norli.

[Jayb]

Does anyone have any of them kicking around that they might sell or swap? If I can get growing them again it be great to pass the seed around since they were soooo good.

Hi Adam, I'm sorry I don't have any Sugar Lord seeds, hopefully someone might have some spare. But be aware, whilst swapping for seeds or similar is fine exchanging for money is not. Good luck with your search  :)

[goodlife]

I've been sending few email to various places about these peas..and HSL send me this for response...
"Thank you for your recent enquiry regarding 'Sugar Lord' pea.
You are not alone, a number of posting boards on the internet have entries from gardeners who are searching for this variety. We do not have this variety in the HSL Collection as it is still listed in the European Common Catalogue and still, officially, commercially available so beyond our remit. Syngenta Seeds in the Netherlands are the listed maintainers."

So...if Syngenta has the seeds..there is not chance of us mortals getting any out of them until they want to release them again.. ::) >:(

[RottenAppleAdam]

goodlife. Thank you. I'll look again next year.