Fothergill's Pea Ambassador Seeds

Details:

• Botanical Name: Pisum sativum 'Ambassador', a premium, highly refined maincrop wrinkled-seeded cultivar within the legume family.
• Plant Class: Hardy Annual, establishing with excellent vigour to deliver a heavy, reliable, and extended summer harvest.
• Plump & Juicy Yields: Bears a prolific abundance of large, dark green pods, typically packed in pairs. Each pod contains up to 8–9 remarkably plump, sweet, and succulent peas that hold their tender texture beautifully without turning starchy.
• Elite Disease Resistance: Bred with advanced modern genetics to feature excellent natural resistance to Powdery Mildew and Fusarium Wilt. This heavy-duty defence system ensures the vines remain healthy, green, and productive during warm, damp late-summer weather.
• Compact Bush Framework: Naturally forms a sturdy, robust, and blunt-ended bush framework reaching a highly controlled mature height of 60cm (24in). Its manageable size makes it an ideal choice for traditional vegetable plots, raised allotment beds, or large patio containers.
• Nutritional Powerhouse: A fantastic, health-boosting addition to your homegrown dinner plate, serving as an excellent natural source of Vitamin C, Vitamin K, and Vitamin B1 (Thiamin).
• Gourmet Versatility: Boasts a wonderful sweetness that is best enjoyed when lightly steamed whole, tossed with fresh mint and butter, or added raw and crunchy straight into summer salads.

Care Instructions:

• Sowing Position: For a continuous, non-stop supply of sweet peas all summer long, sow successive batches every 2 to 3 weeks from March through to July. Sow seeds thinly directly into finely raked, weed-free, and well-drained soil. Position in full sun.
• Simple Sowing Method: Dig a wide, shallow trench roughly 5cm (2in) deep and 15cm (6in) wide. Scatter the seeds evenly across the trench in a staggered "zig-zag" pattern, spacing individual seeds about 5cm apart. Cover with soil and firm down gently with the back of a rake before watering deeply.
• Moisture & Pod Development: Keep the soil consistently moist but never waterlogged. Pea plants require generous, regular watering once they begin to flower and form pods. Allowing the soil to dry out completely during the flowering stage will dramatically reduce your final harvest.
• Support & Harvesting Tip: Although this maincrop variety reaches a compact height of 60cm, providing support is highly recommended to keep the heavy pods off the damp soil. Insert short, twiggy pea sticks, plastic netting, or a wire mesh frame along the rows early on for the plant's tendrils to climb. Harvest the pods regularly from June to September when they are plump and full to encourage the vines to keep producing.