A healthy backyard garden should be a biodiverse environment filled with plants that complement each other. That means if one plant is adding a certain nutrient to the soil or repelling a certain ...

Selecting the right variety of snap peas is essential for a successful harvest. There are several types available, including ...

If you are itching to dust the snow off the garden and get some seeds in, peas are the salvation you’re looking for. I’ve extolled the power of peas before, but I barely scratched the surface on their ...

DENVER — Gardeners begin planting in earnest around St. Patrick's Day. Inside, we celebrate the day with pots of shamrocks. Shamrocks don't really exist in Ireland or anywhere else. They're just Dutch ...

When you say “pea” to most gardeners in the world, they think of green “English” that thrive in cool moist environments. But to most Texans, a hot weather legume from Africa, more related to beans, is ...

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 ...

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 ...

Sunday’s arrival of St. Patrick’s Day is the milepost that many long-time vegetable gardeners use to determine the season’s first planting – peas. Peas are extremely cold-hardy and can go in the ...

Happy St. Patrick’s weekend; a time for ordinary people to drink beer laced with green dye and for MY people — gardeners — to start their peas. Spring crops like peas and salad greens are difficult to ...