Some of my best memories from childhood are of sneaking into my mom’s garden to gorge myself on sweet peas. As I now watch my own children doing the same thing, I smile secretly to myself as it occurs ...

Discover how to pinch out sweet peas for bushier growth and double the blooms. We talk through how to do it and how to use the cuttings to grow more flowers.

This is a chaparral sweet pea, also known as a San Diego Sweet Pea, Wild Sweet Pea, Bolander’s pea, Canyon Sweet Pea, Common pacific pea, Pacific peavine, and San Diego Pea. That seems like an awful ...

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 ...

The glory of the sweet-pea bloom is behind her, but Glenys Johnson still loves autumn, perhaps most of all. As she pulls the dry pods from her spent vines and opens them to remove the seeds, she knows ...

Our favorite pea-forward seasonal dishes are also delicious year-round thanks to reliably excellent frozen peas, which are packaged at peak freshness. Molly McArdle is Food & Wine's Updates Editor.