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Growing => Grow Your Own => Topic started by: tali on January 15, 2007, 18:55

Title: sweet peas
Post by: tali on January 15, 2007, 18:55

My grandad always used to grow sweet peas in his garden i have some seeds any tips for a good healthy aundance of sweet peas
thanks

Title: sweet peas
Post by: tali on January 15, 2007, 18:56

oops an abundance even!!!!

Title: sweet peas
Post by: shaun on January 15, 2007, 19:18

have a look here tali
http://www.chat.allotment-garden.org/viewtopic.php?t=1420

Title: sweet peas
Post by: richyrich7 on January 15, 2007, 19:23

Most people pinch out the growing tips at two to three pairs of leaves to encourage side shoots as the main tip some times does not produce many flowers. Good deep soil, plenty of water and pick the flowers often, more you pick the more you get.
I spent years growing sweetpeas in the garden, for my wife only to find out last year she's not to fond of them !!  :oops:

Title: sweet peas
Post by: shaun on January 15, 2007, 19:27

so thats why you pinch the tops off mmmmmmmmmm

Title: sweet peas
Post by: tali on January 15, 2007, 19:27

oooooo i'll pick the flowers alright they are beautiful! thanks for the tips guys i'm writing it all down !!!

Title: sweet peas
Post by: milkman on January 15, 2007, 19:47

should i be pinching out tips of my plants-in-pots-in-the-greenhouse yet or just on planting out?  they are looking like romping away b4 they really should be at the moment

Title: sweet peas
Post by: shaun on January 15, 2007, 19:57

pinch em out milkman

Title: sweet peas
Post by: richyrich7 on January 15, 2007, 20:04

Personally I've always done it when they got to 2-3 pairs of leaves regardless of where they are. You could try pinching out half now and half on planting, as an experiment, but then those you left till planting would have put a lot of growth on for nothing.
Really funny weather this year everything is going mad, it's too warm. We still have a trailing geranium in the garden with flowers on it in.

Title: sweet peas
Post by: shaun on January 15, 2007, 20:08

have you ever grown them smaller ones for baskets richy

Title: sweet peas
Post by: richyrich7 on January 15, 2007, 20:15

Nope, thought about it though, we have two largish window boxes on the front and I'm looking for something different, only thing that worries me would be picking them 12 foot up in the air  :lol:  
Anybody tried this type?
I assume you still have to pick them often.

Title: sweet peas
Post by: shaun on January 15, 2007, 20:19

it would be a bit of pain getting the ladder out every other day
they look good in the catalogue though