Nothing quite says spring like harvesting fresh, crisp pea pods straight from your vegetable garden! Once temperatures begin to increase, peas are one of the best edible crops to plant ...

Keep the compost moist and transplant into the garden once the seedlings have established. Dig out a shallow trench and gently slide the pea seedlings into it. Water and cover with cloches to ...

"There are few pleasures like really burrowing one's nose into sweet peas," according to novelist Angela Thirkell – so how to grow sweet peas in your own garden for a pretty sea of fragranced ...

In some gardening circles, a gardener’s skill is measured by how soon he or she gets the first mess of shelling peas on the ...

Secure the sweet pea to its cane with string, garden twine or special sweet pea rings. When the sweet peas have grown too tall for their supporting canes, untie all of them and lay the stems ...

Pulses are the dried edible seeds of legumes and make a great addition to any food garden. They include beans, peas, and ...

Amy Dowden said “I am thrilled to have this beautiful new sweet pea named after me. "I love all flowers, and sweet peas have always been a favourite in the summer with their stunning scent.

Sweet peas are annuals which are raised from seed to flower the same summer and then die. There is a perennial cousin called Lathyrus latifolius, which has pink or white flowers, but unfortunately ...

Because cool conditions favour good germination and that crucial initial growth in peas and carrots, I aim for the earliest seeding possible. Still, I wait until a period of temperate, frost-free ...