[Plottered]

Is it to late to plant sweet peas yet? We did a couple of half trays full but not many have germinated.

[Sweetpea C]

Hi,

You can direct sow into the ground now (well, i will do any leftover seeds in a couple of weeks) for flowers this year but they may be a little later than the autumn sown ones for obvious reasons.

Caroline

[jay001]

Oh no... I'm only growing Chatsworth, I don't have anything to compare it to with regards to vigour and growth

oops we have just come home with 4 pkts of chatsworth for 99p thinking it was a bargain. . . .soaking now so will wait and see ! wish we,d read this post first ! 

[JayG]

I usually cheat and buy a pot of sweet pea seedlings from my local garden centre for 99p, but I found myself wandering round Lidl the other day and couldn't resist buying a packet of seeds (25p as part of a multi-buy - would have been rude not to!)

After a 24 hour soak most but not all of the seed coats had split so I sowed them in a pot on a warm sunny windowsill, and today, just 6 days later, the first ones are coming up. It will be interesting to see if there are any obvious no-shows and how long I have to wait for them to fill in............

Update - they are now about 4" tall and in the greenhouse. Most were through within 10 days but I'm not sure whether there are any duds (or very late ones after nearly a fortnight) - there are possibly a couple of gaps because they were supposedly evenly spaced in one pot but I didn't count how many I sowed! 

Be interesting to see what they turn out like given that Lidl seed packets aren't the most informative (and mostly in German anyway!)