Pruning is not required. However, when pea plants are 12 to 14 inches tall, many gardeners cut off the top 4 to 6 inches to encourage the plants to branch out and create new shoots, increasing the ...

Peas, leaf lettuce, spinach, arugula, carrots, beets, radishes, and other cool-season crops are eager to start growing soon.

Why grow sweet peas as a screen? Sweet peas need support ... Allow plants to grow for four weeks until they are about 30cm (12in) tall, then select the best shoot and remove the rest.

On a cold, calm February night in 1865, the members of a little science society gathered in the town of Brünn, Austria, to hear a paper on inheritance in plants by an Augustinian monk from the ...