Sweetpeas

[burnie]

Decided to plant some outside the greenhouse as well as inside, cold westerly wind blowing, but forecast is for no frost(hopefully)

[Thelma Sanders]

Good luck! the ones I planted out on the allotment about 10 days ago look really unhappy, despite being wrapped round with polysheeting

I'm still putting the garden ones (still in their pots) back inside the greenhouse every night

[Bren In Pots]

I'm doing the same thing with my sweetpeas Thelma but in a day or two I'll be leaving them out at night under a cloche.

[maverick451]

Sweetpeas are actually quite hardy, mine have been out for a month

They seem to be to take a light frost

[burnie]

Monty told us to put them in last weekend, but I tend to ignore a lot of his advice as it doesn't apply up here.

[Martin H]

As long as you make sure they are properly hardened off then they will be fine. I sowed mine in autumn and they spent the entire winter out on our garden table until I planted them out in March. They are tough!

But previous years they've spent the winter in the cold greenhouse, then they sulked when I put them out and the cold wind got to them. They recovered but would have been better if I'd acclimatised them properly.

[Thelma Sanders]

As long as you make sure they are properly hardened off then they will be fine. I sowed mine in autumn and they spent the entire winter out on our garden table until I planted them out in March. They are tough!

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As I said, mine didn't like the move from garden (surrounded by hedges, so sheltered) to allotment (very exposed) even though I put the polysheet around them. I hope they recover.

[Martin H]

As I said, mine didn't like the move from garden (surrounded by hedges, so sheltered) to allotment (very exposed) even though I put the polysheet around them. I hope they recover.

They probably will. When it happened to me, the existing leaves went white and papery but fresh new sideshoots soon appeared. As long as they had a decent root system!

[Bigmallly]

Mine are sown in a large pot in Autumn & left to get on with it. They are coming through nicely.

[Cadalot]

Ummm I got a shed load of sweet pea seeds earlier this year, from the gardening press exhibition looks like I better get on and sow them.

[cpm82]

At what stage is it advisable to plant out sweetpea seedlings? How large should they be for instance?

Thanks

[Martin H]

At what stage is it advisable to plant out sweetpea seedlings? How large should they be for instance?

Thanks

I don't plant them out until they are reaching out for support with their tendrils.

[Martin H]

Ummm I got a shed load of sweet pea seeds earlier this year, from the gardening press exhibition looks like I better get on and sow them.

It's getting a bit late to get good flowers this year. Personally I would wait and sow them in October. Or January to early March.

[boatsman]

Mine are coming up all over the place. I sowed seeds in paper coffee cups and they are coming up nicely. Will transplant them up against the fence in our communal front garden.

[Finley]

I sowed some in my shed and some direct under plastic bottle cloches, have removed the cloches now and they're maybe 2 inches high. The indoor ones I transplanted but they're still under a cloche.. I'll whip it off if this sunshine continues! They're supposedly very highly fragrances so I hope they survive. May have planted too many...