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 ...

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 ...

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: ...

A. There are cool- and warm-season peas. Ideally, we sow English, snow and sugar snap peas in the garden December-January to enjoy a spring harvest. We sow Southern (black-eyed, crowder, purple hull ...

Crowder peas, cow peas, black-eyed peas, pink-eye peas, purple hull peas -- these Southern peas start making their appearance in the market this time of year. Because they love a long, hot growing ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...