Sweetpeas over?

20 baskets ?????? wow that some watering ever day!

 

I really wouldn't blame yourselves guys ( or anyone else lol), I have had plenty of rain-in fact that is pretty much all it ever really does up here-and all are in the soil and mine have tailed off dramatically-infact there is no difference between the ones I picked and the ones I allowed to set seed for October, in my garden.


I'd lift them if I hadn't decided to just let nature take it's course-and greed for more seeds I must admit. I'll lift them when I have taken every seed pod off.

 

My sweet peas have been lovely, and I've been regularly cutting bunches to have jars of them round the house from early summer until the last few weeks. They are struggling now though, and mildew has hit.

I'm trying to let the seed pods ripen for me to save for next year, then they're coming out.

 

I have been very disappointed with my sweetpeas this year. I've hardly had anything off them. I will need to get some more for next year now as they did not even give me any seed pods either.:(

 

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i gave him £40, IT WAS A BARGAIN!. music.:gnthb::yho:

 

This year was the first time i tried sweet peas - i failed, no flowers at all. They seemed to be growing up the frame ok, but now they are all yellow, and very sorry looking. Is this common? Or did i do something wrong?

 

I reckon you did something wrong, they are not hard to grow.

When did you plant?
Seeds in the ground or plants?
If plants bought in or raised from seed?
If raised for seed sown when?

What was the ground preparation?

Did you water much / at all whilst growing?

What did you feed with?

 

They were plants, (From the garden center) and i had them in a large tub, didnt feed them... watered when needed - have had a lot of rain.

 

Sweetpeas need room for their roots to really expand. I've tried them in pots before and they were a bit pathetic. They also needed constant watering, even with rain.

Try them in the border next year.

 

Thanks Sussexgardener, i will try that next year. Fingers crossed!

 

Don't do what I did this year and plant them at the back of the border...meaning it was almost impossible to tie them up as they grew or to dead head regularly.