Ha ha ha!! You know, I looked at that when I typed it and thought it just didn't look right! I also forgot that I needed to cover some pine headboards that I cordoned off a tree with (don't ask) to disguise them, so those will be directly into soil.
Wish you luck, Becks...but an angle grinder will only cut the post off at ground level, so you'll still be left with a chunk of concrete in the ground.
I hate anyone to fail, so I have to say that planting your SPs into Morrison's pots as their permanent home (bottomless or not) will not succeed.
I am putting mine in now. We also had a bit of a M Don thing with bought ones and seeds straight in the soil. It was so successful that we're not doing that again and putting them in now, using toilet tubes on top cos they're free. My father grew sweet peas for my mother every single year. It was the only cut flower she ever had.
So, Monty concludes his 'sweet pea trial', althoughI don't think it told us anything we didn't know already...I said way back on the beeb boards what the outcome would be.
I would say to anyone who may be deterred from sowing the see directly in situ, in March, that Monty's trial is nothing like representative of what may normally expected....this was purely down to the dreadful weather.
Autumn sown sweet peas will flower from May to late August and Spring sown seeds will flower from July into October, or later depending where you live. There's a good case for mixing your options, I feel.
And autumn sown and spring sown plants will go into the ground at the same time?
Nope....Plants from autumn sown seed will be planted out in March and Spring (indoor sown) plants will be planted out in May.....always depending on the prevailing weather & where you live.
I grew sweet peas for the first time this year, sown indoors late feb, planted out in April - 2 days later a hard frost but they still survived! Anyway when they flowered I got flowers with nice long stems ideal for cutting..but as the summer went on the stems got shorter and shorter??? Does this usually happen. They became to short to cut and place in a vase
Yes this is true, but is one of those things that is better just accepted, rather than to reason why. But briefly, as the growing cycle between production of the flower stem and the flowers progresses the stems do get shorter. The longest and strongest sweet pea stems are those in the first flush of bloom in early summer as they’ve had a chance to slowly develop…. as the weather gets warmer, the stems do get shorter.
The same thing happened with the ones I have grown in a large tub but the ones in the ground are still producing longish stems.
I'll be buying some sweetpea seeds this afternoon and sowing them shortly. I started this year's ones in February but wanted to give this autumn sowing a go.
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Ha ha ha!! You know, I looked at that when I typed it and thought it just didn't look right!
I also forgot that I needed to cover some pine headboards that I cordoned off a tree with (don't ask) to disguise them, so those will be directly into soil. 
Wish you luck, Becks...but an angle grinder will only cut the post off at ground level, so you'll still be left with a chunk of concrete in the ground.
I hate anyone to fail, so I have to say that planting your SPs into Morrison's pots as their permanent home (bottomless or not) will not succeed.
Not to worry. Hopefully the other ones will be ok.
Your envelope has just arrived! Jess is looking and shaking her head! I don't think she can vision what they will look like.
I am putting mine in now. We also had a bit of a M Don thing with bought ones and seeds straight in the soil. It was so successful that we're not doing that again and putting them in now, using toilet tubes on top cos they're free. My father grew sweet peas for my mother every single year. It was the only cut flower she ever had.
So, Monty concludes his 'sweet pea trial', although I don't think it told us anything we didn't know already...I said way back on the beeb boards what the outcome would be.
I would say to anyone who may be deterred from sowing the see directly in situ, in March, that Monty's trial is nothing like representative of what may normally expected....this was purely down to the dreadful weather.
Autumn sown sweet peas will flower from May to late August and Spring sown seeds will flower from July into October, or later depending where you live. There's a good case for mixing your options, I feel.
Nope....Plants from autumn sown seed will be planted out in March and Spring (indoor sown) plants will be planted out in May.....always depending on the prevailing weather & where you live.
Yes this is true, but is one of those things that is better just accepted, rather than to reason why. But briefly, as the growing cycle between production of the flower stem and the flowers progresses the stems do get shorter. The longest and strongest sweet pea stems are those in the first flush of bloom in early summer as they’ve had a chance to slowly develop…. as the weather gets warmer, the stems do get shorter.
Btw, less of a problem with autumn sown seed.
The same thing happened with the ones I have grown in a large tub but the ones in the ground are still producing longish stems.
I'll be buying some sweetpea seeds this afternoon and sowing them shortly. I started this year's ones in February but wanted to give this autumn sowing a go.