Pruning is not required. However, when pea plants are 12 to 14 inches tall, many gardeners cut off the top 4 to 6 inches to encourage the plants to branch out and create new shoots, increasing the ...

But Mendel’s experiments — and my shockingly tall sister — would prove this assumption all wrong. And pea plants were the perfect subject for this research. They’re relatively quick and ea ...

The patient monk carefully bred and cross-bred pea plants to see how a few specific traits -- height was one -- were passed down. When Mendel bred a tall plant to a short one, all of the offspring ...