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 ...

My grandmother grew pink sweet peas to cover tattered tar paper siding on a shed in her tiny garden on the east side of Buffalo. I remember my sister and me picking the flowers and seed pods for ...

Poet John Keats wrote about sweet peas as delicate treasures - "on tip-toe for a flight " Romantic gardeners describe ruffled blooms as "butterflies all aflutter," and their fragrance is sensuous, a ...

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.

One of these cool mornings, dig a narrow trench next to an eastern or northern fence, about 12 inches deep. Fill it with compost and then walk away. In January or February and beyond, you’ll be happy ...

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 ...

Well, it’s September, and for those of you who don’t always follow this column, September is sweet pea month. The old-timers in Redlands always had them planted by Labor Day, but I have always ...

In summer, dusty Washington roadsides are often brightened with rosy sweet peas. A reader wants to know if the roadside sweet peas are garden escapees, and if they’d have stronger scent if grown in ...