W ith their delicious perfume and myriad of candy-like hues, sweet peas are undeniably one of the best early-summer bloomers.

We love sweet peas - doesn’t everyone? They’re beautiful, they smell great, and they’re easy to grow. If you’ve already sown them indoors, you’re probably wondering when to plant out ...

Gardeners who are growing peas in their garden should complete one job in the month of June, according to experts. The Royal ...

Align them in a north-south direction so that plants see the sun on both sides of the frame • Support frames are not essential with dwarf peas. These only grow 50-75cm high and are reasonably ...

And luckily, they're not too tricky to grow. It may sound a bit off the wall, but Akeroyd suggests sowing pea seeds in gutters, as it’s a useful method of getting these crops off to an early start.

For Mendel, it looked more like plant matchmaking. In his most famous experiments, he hybridized pea plants, or interbred plants with different characteristics. He did this by moving pollen from ...

Peas are in the group of foods known as legumes. Legumes are plants that produce pods with seeds, or beans, inside. Other foods in the legume family include lentils, soybeans, chickpeas ...