From creamy pastas and brothy soups to crisp salads and easy sides, these dishes make the most of the season's sweetest crop.

Discover how to pinch out sweet peas for bushier growth and double the blooms. We talk through how to do it and how to use ...

It takes seconds (and doesn't involve soaking them) ...

Sweet peas have an irresistible perfume and every winter garden should have these wonderful scented, free flowering varieties. If sown this month, sweet peas should start coming into flower in June.

With their sweet fragrance and delicate blooms, sweet peas are sure to delight. So plant a row of sweet peas this spring to fill your garden with scent and your heart with whimsy.

You might say daughter-in-law Dawn Meredith Peck has the uncommon sense in this family. Or, at least, an uncommon sense of scent, a pursuit of floral fragrance which has driven her to write three ...

The glory of the sweet-pea bloom is behind her, but Glenys Johnson still loves autumn, perhaps most of all. As she pulls the dry pods from her spent vines and opens them to remove the seeds, she knows ...

While sweet peas are annuals, which mean they germinate, grow, flower, set seed and die all in one year meaning they have to be re-grown each year, they are long-flowering and provide plenty of colour ...