[Lily]

I have sweet peas in my garden. I planted them this year but I do not know whether they will grow back next year or will I need new seeds?
Also can you do anything with them to preserve the smell (like with lavender)or to flavour sugar?

[richyrich7]

Yes you will have to re-sow for next year, not sure how you could preserve the smell tho'

[DD.]

I've got some everlasting ones.

You can get them from most seed merchants, but they don't have the smell of the annual ones. I 'borrowed' my seed from some growing in Castle Cornet on Guernsey so I've got a permanent souvenir (hopefully).

[muntjac]

collect the seed when the pods go dry . sow in feb .plant out in may as strong young plants alongside the runners  

[Trillium]

What happens here is a trade off: you either get scent from annual sweet peas and must replant yearly, or, you get perpetuity with perennial seed but no fragrance. No one, as far as I'm aware, has bred scent into a perennial sweat pea. As far as I know, sweet pea scented stuff is just chemical formulation mostly. Lily of the valley scent is totally formulated. We load the house with the s.p. flowers during season.

[muntjac]

i have percys peas and they do me  

[Trillium]

.. percys peas

   ?

[muntjac]

percy throwers sweet peas
http://www.unwinsdirect.co.uk/?PAGEID=20670&STK_PROD_CODE=5010-2118&CTL_CAT_CODE=22020

[new_2_veg]

we have some in our garden thats been there for over 6 years, they where there when we moved in so not sure what they are but they always come back better than the last time

nathan

[muntjac]

manure them when  they die down cut the dead stuff away save the seeds ........just put the stuff on the surface where they grow .... wait till next year

[Annie]

If I plant sweetpeas now do they need overwintering in the greenhouse to plant ouy in spring?

[WG.]

I'd dry off the seeds and only plant them in Spring.

[muntjac]

I'd dry off the seeds and only plant them in Spring.

 me 2 mice love em in winter  

[Trillium]

I've not seen Percy's seeds in any of the seed stands here. However, I do mostly grow the very fragant old varieties like Cuprani, Lady Hamilton, Painted Lady, etc. Have a big assortment of them and they truly are heavily scented. The newer ones just don't come close.
Fortunately here I can direct plant them in spring and they do far better than started ones - better temperature acclimitization.  

[greenfingers]

Well i grew some this year for the first time from seed(mr fothergills) and they were blooming rubbish.I planted when they were strong plants and i've had about 5 flowers :oops:  They're still in the garden now but have no flowers on them. :roll: What did i do wrong? :cry: