Peas do not grow like beans, which wrap around a support and grow straight up. Peas sprawl. They need to be lifted up and tied onto some kind of support to make them grow upright. This article will ...

For the past three years, I’ve started my pea crop by using the “gutter pea” technique. I know that doesn’t sound very appetizing, but it is a great method for sowing and transplanting them. Most ...

Time’s a'wasting. If you have not started your spring garden yet, better hop to it. And if you are a garden novice, the best way to get your feet wet in gardening is with an early crop of garden peas.

Let there be peas on Earth! It’s harvest time for our pea-pickin’ gardening expert Bill Finch. A few weeks ago, we built a trellis on Plain Gardening, and now that trellis is covered in peas. We ...

My grandmother grew pink sweet peas to cover tattered tar paper siding on a shed in her tiny garden on the east side of Buffalo. I remember my sister and me picking the flowers and seed pods for ...

Who doesn’t like peas? They are so easy to grow. The sweet peas provide lots of different-colored flowers and, of course, can have the strongest perfume odor you can grow if you plant the fragrant ...

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No other vegetable is as closely associated with a month of the year as is garden pea, and few things match the gastronomic appeal of fresh peas from the garden. The term “early June peas” often ...