Too often we underestimate annuals, choosing permanent plantings in an attempt to be thrifty or to avoid the dated “bedding out” look. Annuals are actually a pretty good deal: They’re ...

My mom remembers how her mom cooked purple hull peas. She would shell the peas, adding some snapped immature (still green) peas. Cook, simmered in a pan of water with some salt pork and a few pods ...

The flat pods (pea pods) that you’ve likely grown accustomed to in Asian cooking is a snow pea. These start out flat and small and grow longer, with a few smaller peas, spaced apart, in them.

The purple pea pods are edible, if you want the extra anthocyanins, but not fleshy and juicy like a snap pea pod. The peas themselves are gargantuan green spheres that seem to burst from the ...

Launched today the unique 'Shiraz' pea has taken over a decade to develop with British researchers painstakingly perfecting the exact deep burgundy shade and pod size.

Yet in the midst of my pea bed has climbed a single vine with something I've never seen before on an edible pea: a purple flower. Every other flower on every other vine is reliably white.