Healthy, sweet peas start with the right variety and the right care. Here's how growing peas in pots gets you a delicious harvest in no time.

USDA Agricultural Research Service geneticist Rebecca McGee can hold her new winter peas in one hand, and spring peas in the other, and not tell the difference. “Before, the winter peas were very ...

This vegetable is easy to cultivate indoors.

Asparagus pea will tolerate the same sort of arid, worn-out ground preferred by nasturtiums. Heirloom Vegetable Gardening by William Woys Weaver is the culmination of some thirty years of first-hand ...

A farmer might call them cowpeas. A grocer might call them black-eyed peas. A restaurant waitress might call them field peas. But they are all talking about the same vegetable — the southern pea. If ...

A staple of the summer garden, peas are among the easy-to-grow vegetables that'll thrive in shady areas. Lathyrus oleraceus (formerly Pisum sativum) is the scientific name covering several pea ...

The demand for plant-based foods is increasing worldwide. Peas in particular are a burgeoning source of high protein content as a substitute for meat. With their small climate footprint, peas are ...

Late winter is the perfect time to start several types of cool-season vegetables, herbs, and flowers. According to pros, here ...

Gregor Mendel described his experiments with pea plants and proved that genes are transmitted in discrete units, with certain ...