English peas, snap peas and snow peas usually give me about two pickings and they are done. Southern peas, depends somewhat on the cultivar. The vining and semi vining cultivars tend to keep producing sporadically at long as conditions suit them. Some of the bush types do quit after a fter a couple of pickings.

My experience is the same as Farmerdilla's, but I have some friends not too far away who have snow peas keep going well into the summer. I really don't know what makes the difference.

As long as you see blossems on them they will keep producing. I just pulled most of mine up, but they still had a little green at the top of the plant and were producing a little. In early spring I could pick every day but it has dropped of considerably on the older vines. They don't like the heat. I like the Wando peas best, peas and pods taste great.

Thanks!

I had snow pea vines up to 7 feet and produced continuously until they finally dried up but that was in early August. It was a big producer this year. However they lasted far longer than the dwarf types I had. It does tend be related to conditions as spogarden said. I doubt those peas would have been around till August last year. When there is heat water and more water when they are fruiting.

Hi,

In my experience they don't like the heat and stop producing in late July. I just pulled mine up a week ago and planted a new batch for fall harvest (snap and shelling varieties). They are up and about 2 inches tall already. Yum!

Which variety of shell peas did you plant a week ago? I have an empty trellis now that I pulled the cukes down. Wondering if I could try peas there now?