Growing sweet peas from seed is rewarding and relatively straightforward, but as with most things, problems can sometimes arise. These range from leggy, weak growth to interloping pests, and such ...

Keen to get a head start on the gardening year? Here's everything you need to know about sowing sweet peas in January ...

Sweet peas are a crowd favourite, signalling that summertime has finally arrived with their beautiful and delicate blooms. Although we're still in spring, there's a little lesser-known gardening ...

My grandmother grew pink sweet peas to cover tattered tar paper siding on a shed in her tiny garden on the east side of Buffalo. I remember my sister and me picking the flowers and seed pods for ...

10:07, Sun, Jun 8, 2025 Updated: 10:10, Sun, Jun 8, 2025 Companion planting is a popular gardening technique where different crops are grown side by side to help each other thrive. Some plants can ...

See how a snap pea plant growing from a seed to harvesting pods in this 60 days time-lapse. The pea seed was sowed in a pot with potting mix soil. The seedling emerged within the first week. The plant ...

You might say daughter-in-law Dawn Meredith Peck has the uncommon sense in this family. Or, at least, an uncommon sense of scent, a pursuit of floral fragrance which has driven her to write three ...

There’s a red mystery vegetable served with your plate of greens at a friend’s dinner party. To spare being rude, you dive in. The tasty surprise is a turnip from Sweet Pea’s Garden in Palisade (719 ...

Nothing makes scents like sweet peas. These climbing, vining legumes aren’t edible — they’re grown for their flowers, and when I say flowers, think armfuls of colorful, ambrosial bouquets, brightening ...

Some flowers look beautiful; some smell good. Still others manage to accomplish both. Sweet peas — along with lilacs, for example, and certain lilies — rank with the multitasking superstars that ...

CORVALLIS – Sweet peas are a classic flower in English gardens since they were introduced in the 17th century from southern Italy and have transplanted well to all parts of the world, including ...

THE first plant legendary Sun gardening guru Peter Seabrook ever grew was a sweet pea. It began an 80-year-love affair with these sweet, scented flowers. Please ...