Hi is that right you can soe sweet peas now? If so do you have to have a green house?it all seems very early to me.If the answer is yes i would like to do some nice ones can any one help please.
You can sow sweet peas in October, I don't, my Spring sown ones are just the same size at planting out time, so no point in me looking after them through the winter.
Lots do though.
Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor.
I some times sow Sweet peas early eg Oct ,you can put 3-4 peas in a pot after soaking them overnight this can help as the shells can be very hard, make sure that the pot is long as they have very long roots and don't like to be disturbed, I didn't have a greenhouse so kept in a spare room, the object of early planting is that when all frosts have passed plant out, that can give an early flowering.
So it all depends on your last frost, if you have late frost in May as we do, your Spring sown seeds will be the same size except you've had the hassle of storing them over winter, with vigilant dead heading and feeding they will still go all through summer.
Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor.
I'm with Lyn - its hard enough keeping the mice away from mine in a few short months in the spring - I'd never get them through a winter. I've been picking flowers since June and they are still going strong. Went right through til end of September last year. Every weekend I take off every bloom I can find, that way they never get a chance to set seed, and we have loads for the house. Fantastic plants
Also, on "nice" ones - I grow all sorts, but the ones from Eagle seeds that I have this year are bigger and better than anything else I have tried ....I'll be going for them again next year
Same here chicky - I've never done autumn sowings. Last year I did some (indoors) early on in March so that I could get some earlier ones. We have wet and cold more than late frosts. I hardened them off and put them out and then the weather was so cold and miserable that the ones sown direct in late April/early May caught up and overtook the ones I'd sown in March. Not worthwhile!
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I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
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You can sow sweet peas in October, I don't, my Spring sown ones are just the same size at planting out time, so no point in me looking after them through the winter.
Lots do though.
ok thanks i think i will wait
So it all depends on your last frost, if you have late frost in May as we do, your Spring sown seeds will be the same size except you've had the hassle of storing them over winter, with vigilant dead heading and feeding they will still go all through summer.
I'm with Lyn - its hard enough keeping the mice away from mine in a few short months in the spring - I'd never get them through a winter. I've been picking flowers since June and they are still going strong. Went right through til end of September last year. Every weekend I take off every bloom I can find, that way they never get a chance to set seed, and we have loads for the house. Fantastic plants
Also, on "nice" ones - I grow all sorts, but the ones from Eagle seeds that I have this year are bigger and better than anything else I have tried ....I'll be going for them again next year
Same here chicky - I've never done autumn sowings. Last year I did some (indoors) early on in March so that I could get some earlier ones. We have wet and cold more than late frosts. I hardened them off and put them out and then the weather was so cold and miserable that the ones sown direct in late April/early May caught up and overtook the ones I'd sown in March. Not worthwhile!
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...