In Season suggests picking fresh peas off the vine - or your local supermarket - to enjoy this spring. Here’s how lucky we are. In much of the country, peas aren’t planted until St. Paddy’s Day on ...

In many parts of the country, fresh spring peas are already in the markets. (The season starts on the West Coast and extends through mid-summer on the East Coast and Midwest.) This is cause for ...

Poets and gardeners agree that no flavor better captures spring’s sweet song than that of a perfect English pea. They may well be right, but most of us are just going to have to take their word for it ...

They are everything you like about peas, in a neat, crisp green package, and there’s no shelling: That’s the beauty of edible-pod peas. Chinese snow peas are crisp and flat, perfect for stir-frying ...

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 ...

There is one plant you can always count on to do well no matter what the weather hereabouts, and that is the sweet pea. No wonder the English gardener refers to this flower as the Queen of Annuals and ...

For gardeners who lament the arrival of summer because it means pea season is over, consider the venerable pigeon pea -- a hardy perennial that can produce successive harvests during the year. The ...

As odd as the words look, Pisum sativum are the sweet green peas that are a beloved vegetable. Now is the time to plant them, and perhaps you will be able to enjoy your crop by Mother’s day. If you ...