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

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 ...

If you’ve never grown peas before, you should! If you’ve ever eaten a pea fresh from the garden, I don’t need to convince you to grow peas. The sugar in peas begins turning into starch from the moment ...

George Washington always makes me feel guilty. I never hacked down a cherry tree. It was his birthday last week that caused unease. Years ago, I was taught that my peas must be in the ground by ...

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 ...

Get your fall vegetable garden on track with planting times, spacing, seed-soaking tips, and Bt controls for cabbage loopers on broccoli and greens.

Peas are a cool season crop planted in November and February. While November has past, February is a good month to plant peas that will mature in early spring. Three types of peas are grown by home ...

My favorite type of pea is snap peas eaten fresh off the vine — a perennial kid favorite, too. I’ve never intentionally grown shelling peas. I prefer growing things where I can eat most of what I grow ...

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 ...