Sweet pea support

[annie8]

Saw these for sale in Waitrose. Wasn�t planning to buy I was just surprised at how densely planted the sweet peas were and that they were planted to grow up in the inside of the canes. Haven�t grown sweet peas before but had been planning to put them outside the canes and much fewer per structure. Can anyone advise?

[nickdub]

Depends on how you are fixed for outside space really - in the ideal world a nice large bed, ready dug and liberally manured to plant them in - failing that then the biggest containers you can manage to find and fit in the available space - 20L paint buckets for example with holes drilled in for drainage.

Good rich compost, but free draining.

Your'e quite right that the plants are too close together - when everything else is ready and you have somewhere to put them, knock the plants out of their current containers and dump the bottom half in a bucket of water - carefully separate one or two plants at a time, putting them back in the water to keep the roots damp - when you've finished disentangling the root-ball, plant them up and give a good watering - repeat for the other containers - sit back and have a cup of tea and a pat ion the back.

Don't forget to snip off all flowers when they come out even if you throw them away- if you stop picking, the plants stop flowering.

[Jungle Jane]

It looks like each container has ten canes & it looks like there’s ten plants,sweet peas cling on to each other & can get in a tangle but you can guide them each up a cane early on,twirling it around the cane. I think it looks alright,the roots will find a space,I had two sweet peas flowering in 3” pots once they looked good on a table edge dangling over.

[bramble]

If you pinch out the growing tip of each plant you will get many shoots.
I would think it will be difficult to train them up the canes..
If you have the space take them out and plant individually.
I grow mine up green chicken wire.