Your home's garden should be a safe space to cultivate tranquility. Climbing plants can make your backyard a cozy oasis, but some species are more sinister than serene. Rosary pea (Abrus precatorius) ...

This week's look at what's new, bountiful or mysterious in the produce aisles. It's time for the annual sacrificing of spring peas for pea shoots. Let me explain. Pea shoots are precursors to pea pods ...

1. In a small bowl, combine wine or sherry, broth or water, soy sauce and sugar. Set near stove. 2. Prepare pea vines by removing leaves and tendrils from the heavier stems. (Discard stems.) In a wok ...

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 ...

The scientific name of pea plant is Pisum sativum. Discover the pea plant's botanical name and its Fabaceae family.

Q. Every year I grow shelling pea vines, but the plants are never very vigorous, and the pod set is modest. I’m wondering how to improve future plantings. What variety or varieties do you grow? A. To ...

Here in the tropical low desert of the Southwest, we sow pea seed in January. Yes, it’s totally counterintuitive, but the dawn of the year is the only time it’s cool enough for this 60- to 75-day crop ...

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 ...

It’s time to gather the sweet snap peas right off the vine, then throw them into salads and other dishes. In the 1950s, Dr. Calvin Lamborn was working in Twin Falls, Idaho, doing plant breeding.