Sweet peas have an irresistible perfume and every winter garden should have these wonderful scented, free flowering varieties. If sown this month, sweet peas should start coming into flower in June.

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 ...

Sweet peas are one of summer’s delights and to enjoy the flowers at their fragrant best, sow seed within the next few weeks. If possible, sow rather than buy young plants that are started in ...

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 ...

MOBILE, Alabama-- I've been threatening everyone with Gulf Coast sweet peas for 15 years now. In my early years as a garden writer, I’d have to say that sweet pea anguish was almost as pervasive as ...

• Peas like cool conditions with temperatures between 15-24ºC. They hate frost • Sow from February to August in cool, temperate frost-free areas; September to October in cold districts; and April to ...

A question for Dan Gill: What kind of sweet peas do you recommend? Are there any kinds that do not need to be trellised? I want some that smell wonderful and look beautiful. Also, I've been having ...

All I am saying, is give peas a chance. This is the week to leap into spring as February stretches into March, and it is time to plant the seeds of a healthy harvest. Plant pea seeds now if your soil ...

Delicate tendrils and sweet-tasting pea-flavored leaves are just some of the phrases used to describe pea shoots (Pisum sativum), showing quite a presence at restaurants, farmers' markets and ...