Peas are an excellent vegetable crop to add to your garden in January. Not only can they provide you with some tasty produce, ...

Add this small but rewarding vegetable to your garden. Stacy Tornio has authored more than 15 books about animals, nature, and gardening. She is a master gardener and master naturalist. While peas are ...

Using a new AI method, researchers from the University of Copenhagen have rediscovered 51 old pea varieties that are no longer used in agriculture but may prove promising for the production of ...

Keen to get a head start on the gardening year? Here's everything you need to know about sowing sweet peas in January ...

Nothing makes scents like sweet peas. These climbing, vining legumes aren’t edible — they’re grown for their flowers, and when I say flowers, think armfuls of colorful, ambrosial bouquets, brightening ...

One of the Earth’s oldest vegetables, archaeologists tell us that the garden pea has been around since 4800 B.C. I’ll bet even these first farmers had a hunch about what modern horticulture has ...

The lowly pigeon pea offers many benefits to akamai gardeners. Not only is it a drought-tolerant, small and attractive tree but it also offers an edible crop and fixes nitrogen. As the leaves of ...

Mendel’s monastery garden experiments went largely unnoticed during his life, but their implications would ripple through ...

This week’s weather suggests spring may be far away, but gardeners can satisfy their spring fever by planting garden peas this month. Garden peas (Pisum sativum L.) are cool-season crops that include ...

Varieties differ mainly in their growth habit, mature pod color, seed color and eye color. When it is time to harvest, the pod color may be green, silver, white or purple, depending on the type you ...

See how a snap pea plant growing from a seed to harvesting pods in this 60 days time-lapse. The pea seed was sowed in a pot with potting mix soil. The seedling emerged within the first week. The plant ...

Weekend Gardener Valle Novak explores adaptable spring planting approaches that blend beauty, accessibility, and practical ...