Sweet peas
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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. Smile

Who else is growing them?
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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  Smile .
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Our Tianna is the sweet pea grower here, but we normally sow later. Hmmm, can I spare the indoor space lol x
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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
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(20-01-2021, 11:01 PM)Small chilli Wrote: 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  Smile .
There is a perennial sweet pea, Lathyrus latifolius. DT Brown have a mixed packet in that Gardener's World catalogue, I think.
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(21-01-2021, 12:48 AM)toomanytommytoes Wrote:
(20-01-2021, 11:01 PM)Small chilli Wrote: 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  Smile .
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  Big Grin .
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(20-01-2021, 11:19 PM)Mamzie Wrote: 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 Big Grin
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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?
   
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Sweet pea seeds are in soaking.
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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
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