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Growing Sweet Peas

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  • An excellent choice, scroggin and I hope they will do well for you. Probably my favourite from that collection would be 'Julie Ann' , bred by Eagle themselves and does really well on the show bench.

  • Lupin 1Lupin 1 Posts: 8,916

    Bumped this back up for latest ? about flowers dropping off.

  • KEF wrote (see)

    Bumped this back up for latest ? about flowers dropping off.

     

    Am I being thick again?? image

  • FairygirlFairygirl Posts: 55,069

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    Another thread - poster has probs with buds dropping off his sweet peas. Can you help?

    Should have said - it's called 'Sweet pea heads dropping off' and poster has looked on this thread to try and find a solution.

    KEF and me are too thick to know what to do....image

    It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....



    I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
  • Lupin 1Lupin 1 Posts: 8,916

    Fairy totally agree. My peas are for the steamer. image Gosh guess I'm banned again image

  • Ah, gotcha....hadn't seen it.

    Anyway, sweet pea 'bud-drop' isn't all that serious and will sort itself out when the nights get warmer.

    It usually happens at the start of the flowering period and is mainly caused by variation in temperature i.e. hot days and cold nights.

    It helps not to use cold water direct from the tap....let it stand for 24hrs if possible.

  • Orchid LadyOrchid Lady Posts: 5,800

    My Sweetpeas have flower buds on them....quite a few...and they will probably be open tomorrow when I get home image Muchly excited is Tracey image

    One of them has also come through the picket fence and got friendly with my Geum and has wrapped itself around the stems image

  • Busy-LizzieBusy-Lizzie Posts: 23,966

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    My first picking of Sweet Peas!

     

    Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
  • Busy-Lizzie wrote (see)
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    My first picking of Sweet Peas!

    Can't get the bluddy cursor to flash outside of the quote box... but, hey-ho!  

    As predicted in my post (don't know if you read it) on 27/05/14......well done.

     

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