The most rewarding part of growing your own veggies is harvesting them. The best time to harvest peas will depend on the type ...

These are the kings of the edible-pod peas, a class that also includes the flat snow peas. Sugar snaps are sweeter, crunchier and have more pea flavor. They’re so good you might think they must be an ...

The pea, snuggled so companionably with its kin and so elegantly clad in its pod of complementing green, is one of the first rewards of the gardener`s labor. Pull the pea from the blossom-laden vine ...

Spring is almost unthinkable without fresh peas. Unfortunately, the state of most English peas might make you wish summer would get here faster. The good news is that you have alternatives. If you can ...

If you don't grow English peas in a garden, your best chance of finding good ones is at a farm stand or local farmers market, where you can ask the farmer directly when they were picked. It is ...

Editor’s note: This column is prepared by Joan D. Cook, Penn State Family Living Program, answering questions concerning food that Berks Countians have asked the extension office. The telephone number ...