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Growing Sweet Peas 2014/2015

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  • Forester2Forester2 Posts: 1,477

    I have started collecting toilet roll centres for this years sweet pea growing.(two so far).

  • baza wrote (see)

    Hello David K can you tell me what pests eat sweetpeas,if any and what can i do to stop it.

    Thanks

    Baz

     

    Baz - sweet peas don't normally have any really damaging pests and those they do have (greenfly & pollen beetle) don't cause very much damage....mice in the early stages and perhaps birds later may be a problem.

    There are a couple of things like 'bud drop' & mildew that my be a problem during the growing season, but it's a tad early to be anticipating  every setback.

  • bazabaza Posts: 670
    Thanks David k
  • WillsWills Posts: 262

    Hi David i havent annoyed you for a while image my sweet peas are quite happily growing away in the green house but i could really use the space that they are taking up  can you tell me when the best time to plant them out is i have pinched most of the growing tips out .

  • Hi, Wills

    Weather & soil conditions permitting early March would be the best time to plant out those SPs.

    I say weather & soil conditions permitting because when you remove them from their pots (as with all transplants) they will take a little check and need to recover.

    Try to avoid icy winds...even if you have to provide a temporary windbreak. 

  • bazabaza Posts: 670

    Hello David K

    If or when the sweet peas die back during the winter do they die back altogether or will they regrow the following spring ?

    Thanks

    Baz

  • Baz - There are perennial sweet peas that die back and regrow in the spring, although the ones we discuss here are annuals.

    The perennial type are quite vigorous and have no small.

  • bazabaza Posts: 670

    Thanks David k

     

  • "The perennial type are quite vigorous and have no small.'

    Whoops....please read 'no smell'. image

  • bazabaza Posts: 670
    He he cheers David k I've just checked mine and they are annual
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