Alaska Pea

🌿 Alaska Pea Seeds — The OG Spring Sweetheart

30+ Peas/Packet

Pisum sativum ‘Alaska’

The classic early pea your great-grandparents bragged about before Instagram existed — and for good reason. Alaska Pea is the spring garden’s first applause line 👏🌱: compact vines, dependable germination, and sweet green pearls that taste like cold mornings, fresh mint, and optimism.

Ultra-early to mature (50–55 days) 🌱⏱️, cold-tolerant ❄️, and famously reliable, this heirloom fills hands and hearts fast. Eat straight from the vine 🍃👅, stir into lemon-mint butter pasta 🍋🧈, or blitz into a silky pea purée that whispers, “yeah, I cook.”

A staple for chefs chasing clean spring sweetness + crisp snap. Also killer for pea shoots 🌿👨🍳 — tender, sweet, and drenched in spring energy.

👅 Flavor Profile:

Sweet 🌱, green-fresh 🌿, lightly grassy 🍃, crisp + juicy 💧.
Think: first day of spring… but edible.

🍴 Culinary Uses:

🥗 Toss fresh with lemon zest, mint & flaky salt
🍝 Fold into spring pastas with ricotta + chives
🥄 Purée with cultured butter for silky green heaven
🍣 Use raw peas + pea tendrils as sushi garnish
🍞 Smash warm peas on toast with olive oil + pecorino
🥂 Pair with champagne — because you can

👨🍳 Chef’s Pitch:

Alaska is spring in a pod — crisp, sweet, and fragrant.
Use young peas raw for snap + aroma, or blanch 30 seconds for sweet, tender jewels. Plate with pea shoots for layered green-on-green bragging rights.
Minimal prep, maximum “yes chef.”

🌱 Growing Notes:

🪴 Compact vines 24–36” — small garden hero
🥶 Cool-season champion, great for early sowing
⏱️ 50–55 days to maturity
👩🌾 Direct-sow as soon as soil can be worked
🤝 Benefits from a light trellis/net
🌞 Full sun | 🪴 Great in raised beds
✂️ Regular picking boosts production big-time