And don't be shy to keep picking – because the more you harvest, the more your plants will produce. Enjoying Your Bounty Now for the best part: eating them! Fresh from the garden, peas are ...

Brooms are lovely spring-blooming shrubs, but they are way more valuable for their ability to grow where other plants ...

Sweet peas need support and a screen is a great way ... making it slightly wider and deeper than the root ball of the plant. Allow plants to grow for four weeks until they are about 30cm (12in ...

For a succession of peas, sow at two-week intervals. Use bamboo canes, trellis or netting to create supports for plants. Once peas have reached 5-8cm (2-3in) in height and their tendrils begin to ...

In some gardening circles, a gardener’s skill is measured by how soon he or she gets the first mess of shelling peas on the ...

Keen growers snip off these tendrils, remove sideshoots and tie the sweet peas to their support to get the best blooms and stems. Wet soils, warm days and cold nights can make plants drop their buds.

In 1865, Gregor Mendel performed dihybrid crosses on pea plants and discovered a fundamental law of genetics called the Law of Independent Assortment. Mendel began his experiments by first ...

“So taking this step to safeguard the pine rockland where these incredibly rare plants live is really important.” Big Pine partridge pea: The Big Pine partridge pea is a small shrub with five-petal, ...