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Cardboard planters and peas
FlowerNewbie
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in Fruit & veg
i planted sugar snap peas in toilet roll tubes but they have started going mouldy, when can I plant them out in a container? I have one of those plastic greenhouses, would this protect them from the frost incase it gets cold again?
Ive also done this with sweet peas would this also work or is it too cold?
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Peas are tough. Get 'em outside where the airflow's better and they can get away. Presume they've rooted well? Use the greenhouse for the sugar snap, perhaps for a short while, but the sweet peas will be fine
H-C
Yeah I messed up the start of the sweet peas and hadn't put them in long enough containers, so I transferred them to the toilet roll tubes after they grew a bit. Roots are great. Okay, is the plastic greenhouse enough for the peas or would you say I'd have to fleece them too?
thanks
I plant sweetpeas like that and the tubes always go mouldy- I just ignore it ..... never seems to do any harm
Plant them out, they'll be fine
H-C
Okay thanks All!
Hi FlowerNewbie and all,
I tried the toilet roll method for my sweet peas for the first time this year. I confirm that the rolls tend to get mouldy, but I don't think it matters too much. I had "planted" my rolls in a sand-bed inside the plastic box. I planted them out in the garden last week.
More details on my garden site at http://www.rezeau.org/wp-garden/en/sowing-sweet-peas/ and http://www.rezeau.org/wp-garden/en/sowing-sweet-peas-continued/