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When to plant out sweet peas?

Bagpuss57Bagpuss57 Posts: 256
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When can I plant out my sweet pea seedlings? We have a spot if nice hot weather but I don't want to be lured into a false sense of security and then they struggle if the weather suddenly turns as it has before right up till may? Is there a best time to put them out to ensure good chance of surviving? 

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  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    Sweet peas are hardy ... I've sometimes sown them outside in the autumn and they've survived and bloomed beautifully ... so, as long as they've been hardened off you can plant them out anytime now ... I planted some out today  :)

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • punkdocpunkdoc Posts: 15,039
    Mine are out.
    How can you lie there and think of England
    When you don't even know who's in the team

    S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
  • Bagpuss57Bagpuss57 Posts: 256
    I have been hardening them off in the cold frame with the lid up day and night. Do I need to take them out the cold frame altogether for a bit? My garden is quite warm and sheltered anyway. 
  • GrajeanGrajean Posts: 447
    Mine have been outside for 3 weeks and now the sticks are up  they will be planted out.
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  • paul_in_surreypaul_in_surrey Posts: 239
    I've planted out mine, but now going through the pain of trying to get them to climb, or at least hang on to one of the supports. They seem perfectly healthy, they'd just rather flop around on the ground rather than grow up the wigwam.
    “Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm.” Winston Churchill
  • Bagpuss57Bagpuss57 Posts: 256
    It always seems to take ages for them to get going then suddenly in early summer they just seem to go into turbocharged mode! I always tie mine in as they grow but they need to get at least tall enough to start with to be able to tie them onto canes. I also snipped out the tendrils and got lovely straight stems last year so will be doing that again with these that I've grown from seed rather than buy them already growing. 
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