Growing Peas in Pennsylvania

Peas are one of the best crops you can grow in Pennsylvania — not because they’re the easiest, but because our cool, wet springs across zones 5a through 7a are exactly what peas need. Get the timing right and you can be picking snap peas by late May in most of the state.

The challenge is working around PA’s short cool window. Peas stop producing once summer heat arrives, so timing your planting date — and your variety selection — makes the difference between a full harvest and a season that fizzles out before it starts. This cluster covers all of it.