How many of your friends grow sweet peas in this area? I am betting not very many, although we may have fond memories of grandparents growing them. Sweet peas, Lathyrus odoratus, are climbing ...

Why grow sweet peas as a screen? Sweet peas need support and a screen is a great way of exploiting their natural growing habit while introducing height, colour and scent in one season. Create a ...

It also makes the soil more alkaline, which can be difficult for growing plants ... SOPHIE: Chances are you've mulched with pea straw! Bales of pea straw can contain some rogue pea seeds which ...

Sow seeds in a cold frame in autumn or straight into the ground in spring, and you'll be eating sweet, tender peas straight from ... ensuring there's enough space for plant supports.

Sweet peas have a delicate, unforgettable fragrance that has never been successfully duplicated artificially. • They are easy ...

A harvester chops through a field of golden wheat in Australia. At around 198 gallons of water to grow, the liquid cost of our daily loaf is fairly high. Australian wines have a worldwide ...

Why grow peas? Peas are such fun to grow - especially for children - and in 6-11 weeks you can experience the utter joy of wandering around your garden, munching on these sweet, juicy beauties ...

The good news is that it’s perfectly possible to home-save the seed and then use it to grow another generation of plants to fill your garden with fragrant blooms next year. Sweet pea flowers are ...

John Rowlands has been growing sweet peas on his Denbighshire farm for nine years History will be made at the Royal Welsh Show later this month as a new variety of sweet pea is launched.

Australia is getting hotter and drier, the eucalyptus leaves are less succulent, and now koalas need to drink extra water to survive. It’s a change that seems to reflect a growing awareness ...

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The fastest-growing ... mainland Australia, and Tasmania. An Aboriginal woman in a kangaroo skin cloak carrying a child in South Australia in 1860.(Wikimedia Commons: Samuel Sweet/Library of ...