Sweet peas need lots of tender loving care to keep them looking amazing. We must keep deadheading them to prevent the flowers from turning to seed pods. At this time of year, sweet peas can go from ...
EVERY YEAR, RIGHT around Valentine’s Day, I begin soaking, sprouting and starting seeds, dreaming of the fragrant blossoms to come. This year, I’m tweaking my familiar garden ritual. Earlier this ...
Healthy, sweet peas start with the right variety and the right care. Here's how growing peas in pots gets you a delicious ...
"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." I can’t remember exactly who or what first drew me to growing sweet peas—it might have been the great ...
With their delicious perfume and myriad of candy-like hues, sweet peas are undeniably one of the best early-summer bloomers. To grow them in your garden, you can either sow some seeds (a wider range ...
A cool-weather annual, sweet peas actually like the Northwest's infamous cool springs and begin to fade as the hot weather comes on strong in July. Even though seed packets and available literature ...
Growing and Arranging the Garden’s Most Romantic Blooms” was inspired by her popular workshops. Published in 2025, “Sweet Pea ...
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 ...
Both the sweet pea varieties and their growing conditions are factors in the strength, health, and bloom production of the vines. Some varieties are naturally strong growers with large, wiry, straight ...
As frosts loom and days shrink, one low-cost autumn task promises morale, fragrance and vivid colour when winter finally loosens. October sowings of sweet peas set roots quietly through the cold ...
One of my favorite things to do on a family road trip is to slow down and take in whatever town we are passing through. Often I spy wild purple peas climbing a rickety fence at a house or two, or ...