When you think of backyard farming, most likely you think of tomatoes, onions or maybe even carrots but with the same ease, you could plant peas and enjoy a good harvest without too much farming expertise. Pea is an important nutritious leguminous vegetable that is widely cultivated throughout the world. It is a cool-season, frost-hardy, crop extensively grown in temperate zones but also restricted to cooler altitudes in the tropics and winter seasons in the subtropics. It is a rich source of proteins, amino acids, sugars, carbohydrate, vitamins A and C, calcium and phosphorous, and also has a small quantity of iron. This podcast explains how to grow peas. It is also available as a blog post here: Growing Peas