WHO WILL WIN?CONTENDER: TEAM HOLMES

WHO WILL GROW THE LONGEST? THE MOST? WHO WILL PRODUCE THE FIRST PEA?

Variety: Amish Snap

Strengths: • Vines grow 5 to 6 feet tall (1.5 to 1.8 meters tall)• Produces for more than six weeks if picked regularly

Bonus:• Sweet

Drawbacks:• If it gets hot, they’ll stop producing peas. They like it cold!

Other:• One of the oldest varieties of snap peas, grown by the

Amish community in Pennsylvania.

WHO WILL WIN?CONTENDER: TEAM GIBSON

WHO WILL GROW THE LONGEST? THE MOST? WHO WILL PRODUCE THE FIRST PEA?

Variety: Marrowfat

Strengths: • Vines grow to 4 feet tall (1.2 meters)• Big, fat peas

Bonus:• One of Thomas Jefferson’s favorite kind of peas. Sometimes

he planted them twice a year.

Drawbacks:• Ripens later than other garden peas

Other:• Instead of picked fresh, this pea is dried on the vine. The

dried peas must be soaked overnight before being cooked.

WHO WILL WIN?CONTENDER: TEAM DILLANE

WHO WILL GROW THE LONGEST? THE MOST? WHO WILL PRODUCE THE FIRST PEA?

Variety: Sutton’s Harbinger

Strengths: • Very early pea• Produces a lot of peas

Bonus:• Sweet

Drawbacks:• Vines are less than 3 feet tall (almost 1 meter tall)

Other:• Won an Award of Merit from England’s Royal Horticultural

Society in 1903