Plant your peas early in the spring ... The most common, the wrinkled or marrowfat pea, can be grown as small dwarf varieties ...

Snow peas have flat, edible pods with small underdeveloped seeds ... Peas prefer cool weather, so it's best to plant them in ...

Many dwarf and semi-leafless varieties can also be sown in small blocks ... trellis or netting to create supports for plants. Once peas have reached 5-8cm (2-3in) in height and their tendrils ...

Gregor Mendel discovered the basic principles of heredity through experiments with pea plants, long before the discovery of DNA and genes. Mendel was an Augustinian monk at St Thomas’s Abbey ...