Sweet peas

Every year I forget to sow Sweet peas and I nearly did this year too!! 
This evening, I've sown Wiltshire Ripple, Old Spice, Old Times and Athena.
I started with good intentions, meaning to label each variety and grow them separately until I dropped some seeds and they got muddled with the rest!!
It'll be random Sweet peas this year.

Who else is growing them?

I’d like to join you, I love sweet peas. But I’m only growing perennial flowery things. So they grow big ready to go into their new home. I didn’t grow any sweet peas last year, I really missed them.
I might sow a couple   .

Our Tianna is the sweet pea grower here, but we normally sow later. Hmmm, can I spare the indoor space lol x

We have a lush bankful above a stone wall, that just come back year after year. They were already here when we bought house derelict. No scent, but lots of bees and beauty x

I’d like to join you, I love sweet peas. But I’m only growing perennial flowery things. So they grow big ready to go into their new home. I didn’t grow any sweet peas last year, I really missed them.
I might sow a couple   .

There is a perennial sweet pea, Lathyrus latifolius. DT Brown have a mixed packet in that Gardener's World catalogue, I think.

I’d like to join you, I love sweet peas. But I’m only growing perennial flowery things. So they grow big ready to go into their new home. I didn’t grow any sweet peas last year, I really missed them.
I might sow a couple   .

There is a perennial sweet pea, Lathyrus latifolius. DT Brown have a mixed packet in that Gardener's World catalogue, I think.

Yeah I’ve got some of those. Knowing how they climb & grip on to things. Even keeping them in a pot is going to be a fight to relocate when the time comes. So I’m trying really hard to not sow any. It’s very very difficult   .

Our Tianna is the sweet pea grower here, but we normally sow later. Hmmm, can I spare the indoor space lol x

Germinate indoors and put them in a greenhouse or coldframe. They do much better grown hard I think.


I have tried loads of times to grow the perennial sweet pea - can you save some for our seed swap

Here's mine.

Autumn sown and in the Greenhouse - all branching off. 

   

Autumn sown and left outside all the time - somewhere sheltered - still they have branched but some leaves look a bit battered. Though I'm sure they will be fine. No cover. My project this year is maybe try to make a large coldframe - laden with mouse traps - sorry veggies
   

These I started in Early Jan. They are in the Greenhouse under cloches - just because of mice. I think they are probably getting leggy?
   

Sweet pea seeds are in soaking.

Ohh yes, saving for the seed swap would be a great idea. These Sweet peas have survived decades of neglect at 1400ft on side of welsh mountain so very hardy. They were a fab bonus when we moved here x