When you say “pea” to most gardeners in the world, they think of green “English” that thrive in cool moist environments. But to most Texans, a hot weather legume from Africa, more related to beans, is ...

DENVER — Gardeners begin planting in earnest around St. Patrick's Day. Inside, we celebrate the day with pots of shamrocks. Shamrocks don't really exist in Ireland or anywhere else. They're just Dutch ...

My husband brought home a bag of sugar snap peas from the grocery store last week. Crisp and delicious, they reminded me to plant sugar snap peas from seed this month in order to harvest the peas from ...

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DENVER — St. Patrick's Day is the traditional date to start planting cool season plants, especially peas. Soak the peas overnight so they plump up. Plant them about an inch deep and two inches apart.

Gardening is a conversation with the earth. The gardener does something, and the earth responds via the outcome. If you plant a tomato seedling upside down, for example, the earth will happily swallow ...

Q: We have a cottonwood in our yard, and we noticed last week that a few branches are dying. The tree is approximately 25-30 years old so I can’t imagine that the tree is dying. We were wondering if ...