My gardening education began with a bean seed in a Dixie cup. A paper cup, a scoop of playground dirt and a sprouting bean seed was supposed to awaken every child’s sense of wonder at the natural ...

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 ...

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 ...

If you’re the kind of gardener who likes to get out early in the spring to start growing vegetables well before your last frost, you’ll likely love growing peas. Peas prefer cool weather! I was ...

Been in the video wilderness for awhile but I'm back with some tips on growing food crops in containers. In this example we grow peas in a medium sized pot and I explain my secret growing medium for ...

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.

Sugar snap peas hold true to their name; they are both sweet and crunchy. Sugar snap peas are members of the legume family. While all beans, including peas, grow in pods, sugar snap peas do not ...

If you haven't planted your peas yet, you better get busy. Well actually, you have until the middle of April to plant peas in Mid-Missouri. If you are not planting peas, then I hope you will ...

I judge my spring garden by two metrics – how well I treated my peas and how well they’re treating me. Did I plant them at the right time – as soon as the soil can be worked in early spring? Did I ...

One glance at this photo of freshly picked rhubarb and sugar snap peas gives you a good understanding of the old saying that a picture’s worth a thousand words. Our neighbors down the road, Bert and ...