Specialty Gardening: Sweet Peas! I'm going to have SWEET PEAS!, 1 by mike_freck

mike_freck wrote:
Hiya,

Never came to this forum before Cotages have a different meaning in england lol.

Anyway move it to a clean conversation...... Sweet peas.

I can only really tell you about growing them over here with wet mild winters and wet mild summers to match. Oh yeah and lots more rain thrown in just for fun.
The best thing we do is start them in the Autumn and pinch the tops out when they grow 2 leaves and keep taking the tops out untill you've one it about 3 or 4 times.
Soak em in water overnight and then plant them in something long! easiest thing is the cardboard tubes you get from bog rolls. There just the right length and size.
Put a couple of seeds in each tube.
There heavy feeders and if they don't get feed well enough they go straw coloured and die.
Look out for mildew so spray regular.
What else can i say???

I allways pack them in and pick the flowers regular.

Mike