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You've been dreaming of growing peas on your balcony? Laxton Progress peas are just what you've been waiting for! This very productive dwarf variety will drown you with its large 8 to 10 pea filled pods. Early bearing, you won't wait for long before the first harvest begins. Ideal to eat raw or to freeze.
Package: 30 seeds
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Crunchy, sweet and refreshing! This snow pea variety is productive, compact and doesn't climb. The numerous pods that it grows, each about 10 cm long, are juicy and non-fibrous. Very resistant to diseases, you will have a plentiful harvest without a worry.
Package: 30 seeds
Photo Credit: Écoumène
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This variety comes from Japan, as the name might have given away. It goves early and abundant yields. There is little information available on this variety, but it is rare and delicious, two good reasons to sow it in your garden and save the seeds!
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The Tall Telephone pea is a climbing variety that can grow up to 1.8 m in height with support. It grows large and plump pods, each containing 8 to 10 peas, to deliciously enrich your meals. Crunchy and sweet, the pods are the perfect to snack on as you work in your garden.
Variety from 1881.
Package: 30 seeds
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Shelling pea variety dating back from the 1880s. The peas are round and sweet. This variety can be eaten fresh as snow peas or dry, and can also be canned or frozen. Early yields well-adapted to short seasons like we have in Quebec. Setting up nets or stakes can help with harvest as the plants can reach up to 1 m in height.
Package: Around 30 seeds
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Chickpeas are easy to grow and adapt well to a broad range of soils and climates. Widely grown around the Mediterranean, chickpeas do prefer the heat. Nonetheless they can withstand cooler temperatures and even frosts when it is still small (4-5 leaves).
Chickpea roots harbour nitrogen-fixing bacteria that enrich the soil (90kg/ha). After harvesting, do not uproot the plants. Instead, leave the roots in the ground so that they, and the bacteria, decompose.
Package: 20 seeds 
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This pea variety was carefully preserved by Will Bonzai, in the United States. Few other varieties from the colonial era still exist today, although French colonizers did develop hundreds of pea varieties in their gardens which were well adapted to the North-East American climate. This is were the nickname 'Pea Soup', given by the English to the French, originated.
This variety is a landrace, meaning its peas are of different colors. They look like small pebbles coming straight out of a river, marbled and spotted. We genuinely think those are the most beautiful peas there is. They are ideal to make jewelry. Also adorable as legume in a salad.
Using a net or tutors can help with harvest. High-yielding.
Package: 30 seeds. RARE, PLEASE SHARE.
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Heirloom variety introduced to the Saint Lawrence River Valley by French settlers in the 17th Century. It is still eaten today and makes delicious pea soup. High yielding plants. They will need trellising and can grow up to 1 meter tall.
The Potager d'Antan reports this story : « According to an old European tradition dating back from the 15th Century, Hubertus, patron saint of hunters, was associated with the pea soup.
To make a long story short, during his lifetime, in the 7th Century, Hubert went astray, hunted on Good Friday, and while pursuing a stag, he had a vision in which he saw the animal with a crucifix between its antlers and heard a voice enjoining him to lead a holy life.
Hubertus later performed many miracles, evangelised pagans in distant countries, and erected temples dedicated to the Lord. He died on May 30, 727. His relics were translated on November 3, 743. His feast day is November 3 in Belgium and May 30 in France.
In memory of Saint Hubert, European settlers in Quebec supposedly kept the name of this pea variety, used in the preparation of the hunting soup ».
For the complete story, visit the Potager d’Antan website.
This variety is very rare and is considered endangered.
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Dwarf bean variety that produces a seed halfway between pea and fava bean. According to the Potager d'Antan : « It was still being cultivated in 1999 by a 80 year old man from Lotbinière, Monsieur Laliberté, who confirmed us the plant was unique in Canada. (...) Given by Laliberté's son to Antoine D'Avignon, Seeds of Diversity guardian angel. Antoine passed away in 2003. His sister, Mme. Gisèle D'Avignon, gave us the seeds. »
Delicious in pea soup, a traditional meal in the province of Quebec in the past century.
This variety is very rare and is considered endangered.