Elizabeth has worked since 2010 as a writer and consultant covering gardening, permaculture, and sustainable living. She has also written a number of books and e-books on gardens and gardening. Even ...

A farmer might call them cowpeas. A grocer might call them black-eyed peas. A restaurant waitress might call them field peas. But they are all talking about the same vegetable — the southern pea. If ...

Many of the vegetables we planted back in March and April have finished or are finishing production now. Despite the intense heat of mid- to late-summer, there are delicious, heat-tolerant vegetables ...

• Seeds for sweet peas and native California wildflowers should be planted in November to get the best blooms this spring. • Sweet peas have a delicate, unforgettable fragrance that has never been ...

PIERRE, S.D. — At Dakota Lakes Research Farm near Pierre, South Dakota, South Dakota State University has a trial of field peas, consisting of around 35 different varieties of both green and yellow ...