Allotment Gardening Advice Help Chat
Growing => General Gardening => Topic started by: gypsy on February 18, 2014, 13:04
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If I planted sweet peas now and left them in the house until they poke throught the compost, then transfer to a cold greenhouse would they be ok.? When can they go outside?
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Yes, it's what I've just done :)
Mine will go into the greenhouse as soon as they've all germinated, and get planted out, usually, at the beginning of April.
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I sowed mine 5 seeds per 5 inch pot and left them in the greenhouse straight away and the have germinated okay. They probably took a bit longer to show than in the house but it means I can miss out the transitional stage.
I did chit them first as it was seed I saved from last year and I wasn't sure on their viability. I think sweet peas are quite tough and will do okay as long as it isn't too frosty.
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If I put them in the greenhouse before germination mice eat them >:(
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Thanks for your replies, mine got eaten 2012 so not going to put them in the greenhouse to germinate.
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Haven't had mice in the greenhouse so far...touch wood!
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Haven't had mice in the greenhouse so far...touch wood!
Perhaps they don't like your variety of sweet peas?
Lucky you. :lol:
Good luck with them... the sweet peas... not the mice. ;)
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i thought it was far to early here in rainy salford lancs but having read this thread am now going to sow our seeds saved from last year as well,we pinch the tops out when at 4" so we should be well covered for time before going in there final garden positions . . . . . something to occupy my itchy fingers anyway lol ! :lol:
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My itchy fingers sowed my home saved sweet pea seeds yesterday :lol: I'm risking the greenhouse for germination as I've never had mouse problems in there.
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Mine have just come through (after 5 days) on my kitchen windowsill and will be transferred to the cold greenhouse very shortly - they are the remainder of a pack bought last year from Lidl for the princely sum of 25p and they produced a good range of "old-fashioned" colours with a great scent for months on end.
Not looked to see if they are still selling them this year though.
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My everlasting ones are starting to poke through shall i take them out of the propagator straight away then keep them in the spare room until when?
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I am planting some at the weekend.
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I have planted some in a tray in the kitchen, some in the cold greenhouse and still have some seed left so may plant them later or pass them on once I know that the ones that I have planted are ok
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Anyone know what the 'perennial sweet pea' actually is - I noticed on the packet today that it said it was a 'sweet pea type' plant?
I've got a load of SP coming on in the greenhouse - so much that I've had to plant some of it out - I quite expect that the slugs will take 90%.
Cheers,
Balders
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just sown 200 sweet peas today and still have loads of seeds left . . . . but jane and I love the smell on a summers evening :D :D
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Anyone know what the 'perennial sweet pea' actually is - I noticed on the packet today that it said it was a 'sweet pea type' plant?
Precisely, a perennial sweet pea, with very little scent but beautiful flowers, either bright purple/ pink, pale pearly pink or white
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i've just bought one called red pearl too and my friend has just bought some seeds for a new scented variety it will be interesting to see just how scented they ar.
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I hope they have a proper sweet pea scent --- they will be brilliant then :D
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I'll report back later in the year :D
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I sowed 5 different types of sweetpea in Sept in the cold greenhouse, 2 to a 9" deep 3" pot. Actually a cardboard spray paint mixing cup, packs of 50 very cheap.
Really taking of in Jan so to stop them getting leggy I keep nipping them back to the first well formed budlet.
By mid Feb all very healthy and set out in a coldframe.....First week of March started planting them out..
This method usually gets strong shoots and roots, tough plants and early blooms......I have had the first flowers by May 1st this way.
Last years winds blew the bamboo frames over, so earlier this year got two 8 foot 3"x3" treated posts and concreted them in 7 foot apart, screwed galvanised eyes in every foot and ran strong twine across each while tying in 6x 8 foot bamboo canes equally spaced. Lets see how that does............
The rest will get cane wigwams dotted round the garden.
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Last years winds blew the bamboo frames over, so earlier this year got two 8 foot 3"x3" treated posts and concreted them in 7 foot apart, screwed galvanised eyes in every foot and ran strong twine across each while tying in 6x 8 foot bamboo canes equally spaced. Lets see how that does............
That's some construction :ohmy:
Can't see that one going anywhere (famous last words ... ::) :D )
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My sweet peas have germinated, I planted them singularly in modules.
They are about 3" tall.
What should I do with them now....re-pot them in groups of (insert number here) re-pot them as individuals. In a cold greenhouse, outside, inside...?
I've not grown them before so some guidance would be appreciated.
Thanks
Chris
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Pinch the top bud off to make them bushy - they can go into the cold greenhouse for a while and then gradually harden them off, ready for planting out ;)
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Pinch the top bud off to make them bushy - they can go into the cold greenhouse for a while and then gradually harden them off, ready for planting out ;)
Thanks mum, but how many to a pot or should I leave them where they are & if I pinch out the tips of these, there won't be any leaf left or is that OK ?
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Oh! they're very leggy - they should have got out in the light before they got like that ::)
Don't pinch them out yet then ;) I'd leave them where they are til they're a bit stronger tbh.
Then harden them off and plant them outside :)
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I'm growing an out of date packet of trailing sweet peas that my son brought home free from work (at the garden centre). I reckon I've got 100% germination. :lol:
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we planted 200 in modules @ 4 per module from last years saved seeds and they all germinated bar 1 . . . . making paper pots to pot them on and pinching out got pretty tedious by the end of the day hee hee :ohmy:
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Yes they are rather, they germinated right next to a pair of French doors so light level is quite good. I did leave the cover on the tray though in the hope that the few that hadn't germinated would.
With the condensation that would have reduced light significantly.
I have just sown some more & will try & look after them better this time......if I can spare the time ::)
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Pinch the top bud off to make them bushy - they can go into the cold greenhouse for a while and then gradually harden them off, ready for planting out ;)
Thanks mum, but how many to a pot or should I leave them where they are & if I pinch out the tips of these, there won't be any leaf left or is that OK ?
They're more hardy then we think like peas, but could be salvaged? Try it. Dibble each one into a 3" pot or yoghurt container then firm in so the first leaves are just above soil level, water in, place outside and leave until you see more growth at the top. When that happens, you usually see more leaves unfolding and growing lower down from side shoots on their individual stems. What you pinch out is where you will see two little leaves clasped together like in prayer and is the bit just above where the little stem at the very top originates.