I like to grow Purple Hull peas because when the pods are ready to pick, they turn purple (great for a novice grower unsure of when to harvest) and the flavor of the peas is excellent. YARDLONG BEANS: ...

NORTH TEXAS (CBSNewsTexas.com) - As your spring-season greens give up in the summer heat, replace them with easy-to-grow summer crops like sweet potatoes, summer peas and okra. Summer peas include ...

A farmer might call them cowpeas. A grocer might call them black-eyed peas. A restaurant waitress might call them field peas. But they are all talking about the same vegetable — the southern pea. If ...

At this time of year, many of the vegetables we planted back in spring (March/April) are looking about as weary as we feel out in the heat and humidity. Production has just about finished now, and age ...

SOUTHERN PEAS: Southern peas are easy, productive and delicious. Excellent varieties include Mississippi Silver, Purple Hull, Whippoorwill, Black-eyed and Elite. They grow on relatively short vines ...

The last of the spring cool fronts make their way through our area in early May, so the intense heat of summer is right around the corner. Warm-season vegetables planted in late February, March and ...