Sugar snap peas-tendrils question

Hello Folks,


I would remove the tendrils of sweetpeas so as to get a good flower for cutting , do I do the same now for the sugar snap peas-I have been out muching on them fresh off the plant ( delicious-it's like eating fruit ) and was wondering.

 

Don't think so ...

 

I actually have never taken the tendrils off my Sweepea flowers to get larger blooms ... thank you for that tip, Claire.

My Sugar Snap Peas are the small bushy variety and I didn't do anything to mine. I have eaten all of mine, like you, often straight off the plant (crunchy yum yum), but the heat has killed them off. Will start more in the late Autumn.

 

"I actually have never taken the tendrils off my Sweepea flowers to get larger blooms"

Me neither, too much kerfuffle. But I have read of it (although it may have been in the context of tendrils spoiling blooms grown for Show)

 

It's one of my most enjoyable jobs.


A chance to spend some time among the drop dead gorgeous scent of them-especially as it takes ages to do it.


The tendrils, I find at least, restrict the growth of the stems of the blooms. By removing the tendrils of the sweetpeas your flowers grow ( I can't think of a better way of phrasing it) more proud. The stems are straighter and firmer and blooms are actually better formed.


I don't know know about showing them but they sit better in a vase with tendrils removed.


I wouldn't bother with it if I didn't love these kinds of jobs. I can't pretend I think it is necessary-I just like doing it, and it pays dividends I think.


I won't bother with doing it to the sugar snap peas-I have eaten all the ones that are ready anyway lol. I can't believe I haven't ever grown them before.


Thankyou guys.

 

I have never cut the tendrils off, but I wonder if that is because I plant mine a fair distance apart. Most thing I plant a trowl-apart, simply because its an easy yard-stick. My Trowel-distnace is very nearly a foot - which is generaous - so maybe the tendrils on my plants cant "reach" the next plant and thus spoil the adjacent flower