Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Platter of fresh picked purple hull pea pods - Jim Bowie/Shutterstock In the heart of the American South, there lies a cherished ...

Growing up as a daughter of parents who came of age during the Great Depression and World War II, I found summer to be much more than trips to the lake and July Fourth celebrations. It was the time to ...

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 ...

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 ...

Summertime, and the gardening is sweaty. In addition to making us uncomfortable, high temperatures also can reduce the vigor and production of many vegetables. Tomatoes set fewer fruit, snap beans ...

A Southern Pea (Purple Hull Peas) Production Workshop is scheduled for 10 a.m., Tuesday at the Tabernacle Church in Dermott. Conducted by the University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff Small Farm Program, ...

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 ...