Order Seeds Early One of the most important tips for growing plants from seed has to do with timing. Seed companies get busy in winter and early spring as they fill orders on a first-come, first-serve ...

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 ...

Do you love the smell and beautiful pastel colors of sweet peas in early spring? You can grow them yourself if you get ...

Giving peas a trellis to grow upright makes it easier for them to fruit and for you to pick. It also ensures there will be some left for you after the critters get the low-lying ones. Trellises are ...

Been in the video wilderness for awhile but I'm back with some tips on growing food crops in containers. In this example we ...

Just because it's September doesn't mean it's too late to plant some fruits and vegetables, either for a fall harvest or an ...

My husband brought home a bag of sugar snap peas from the grocery store last week. Crisp and delicious, they reminded me to plant sugar snap peas from seed this month in order to harvest the peas from ...

There are some gardeners in Western Washington that may have soil ready now for early spring planting of peas. Most of us will need to wait for a few more weeks before poking sweet pea and garden pea ...

Gardening is a conversation with the earth. The gardener does something, and the earth responds via the outcome. If you plant a tomato seedling upside down, for example, the earth will happily swallow ...

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 ...