A healthy backyard garden should be a biodiverse environment filled with plants that complement each other. That means if one plant is adding a certain nutrient to the soil or repelling a certain ...

If you are itching to dust the snow off the garden and get some seeds in, peas are the salvation you’re looking for. I’ve extolled the power of peas before, but I barely scratched the surface on their ...

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 ...

It’s time to think about planting peas. When I think about peas I think of standing in my mother’s northern garden in the summer sunshine eating peas right off the vine. I frequently had to be ...

Spring-planted peas are a choice crop for the kitchen gardener, but it’s easy to miss the boat. Well, two boats, actually. The first one sailed this spring when the ground thawed, warmed up a bit and ...

• Seeds for sweet peas and native California wildflowers should be planted in November to get the best blooms this spring. • Sweet peas have a delicate, unforgettable fragrance that has never been ...

Spring is undeniably the best time of the year to dust off your gardening equipment and get to planting. And while you can stick to tending to your green hedges, your flourishing veggie patch, and ...

I love to eat fresh shucked peas like candy. I enjoy munching on tender pods right off the vine. Fortunately, peas are easy to grow. St. Paddy’s Day is pea-planting time, because peas are a cool ...

Happy St. Patrick’s weekend; a time for ordinary people to drink beer laced with green dye and for MY people — gardeners — to start their peas. Spring crops like peas and salad greens are difficult to ...

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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 ...