Garden Sweet Pea

This is a good time to mulch the plants as well.Water the soil around the plants often enough to keep it moist, applying the water slowly and deeply.Fertilize with half-strength liquid fertilizer twice during the growing season.

Bear in mind, though, that sweet peas don't like to be transplanted in hot weather. There is nothing you can add to the soil to correct the problem completely, but adding a high phosphorus fertilizer ormay help some.

Even moisture helps prevent many problems with sweet peas.High nitrogen fertilizer results in lush foliage growth at the expense of the buds and flowers. Lawn fertilizer has a high nitrogen content, so protect your sweet peas when you spread fertilizer...

Planting and Growing Tips: These uniquely-shaped flowers thrive in rich, well-drained soil but will tolerate most growing conditions. There's a reason that vintage flowers are so desirable! Painted Lady Sweet Pea is a delicate blend of pink and white...

When you find a variety you love, why not save the seeds so you can grow them every year? Line a flat surface, such as a countertop or cookie sheet, with newspaper and let the seeds dry for about three days.

The auxins will produce growth and for new and stronger growing tips.Pinching out sweet peas will provide you with more blooms for cutting. By the 1880s, Henry Eckford began hybridizing the sweet scented blooms for more color variety.

If you get winter frosts, plant them about two months before theSweet peas can handle some spring frost, but since you're planting in containers, you can start them inside without fear, even if there's still snow on the ground.Care for your container...

There is, in fact, some toxicity to sweet peas.freestar.queue.push(function() { googletag.display("div-gpt-ad-300x250-ATF-1"); });The seeds of sweet peas are mildly poisonous containing lathyrogens that, if ingested, in large quantities can cause a condition...

Vining varieties need support to climb – provide them some sort of terrace or garden netting. Long stemmed, fragrant flowers come in purple, burgundy, white, pink, salmon and scarlet.

(16”) Bijou Mix is a bush-type Sweet Pea perfect for window boxes, borders or beds, yet has stems long enough to cut. 350 seeds/oz.; 15 days, 55°F. Plants produce a profusion of bright ruffled blooms in a rainbow of colors.

The sweet pea is an annual vine in the pea family. In cultivation since the seventeenth century, it is immensely popular as a cut flower. Sweet peas are one of the most delightful cut flowers and provide wonderful long lasting blooms in the vase.Sweet...

They're perfect for those spots where you getin winter. In that case, remove all but one stem arising from the ground and take off the side branches on the lower one-half to two-thirds of the trunk while the plant is young.You can propagate Polygala species...

Displayed alone or mixed with solid color varieties in bouquets, they are simply gorgeous. Pinch when 6-8" tall to encourage denser branching and more flowers. The purchaser assumes all liability relating to the use of this product.14-21 days at 55-65°F...

Seedlings won't be damaged by a late frost.Mulch to keep the roots cool. Keep soil surface moist until emergence. This early-flowering variety can withstand heat and drought unusually well.

Transplant outside as soon as the soil can be worked. Pinch when 6-8" tall to encourage denser branching and more flowers. Sweet Peas do not store well, but if necessary store at a temperature of 36-39°F (2-4°C), providing at least 12 hours of light...

A popular old standard sweet pea. Does best in cool spring weather. Royal Family mix produces very large blooms with solid colors of lavender, pink, purple, red, salmon and white.

Adds soft colors to contrast more vivid hues of sweet peas and other climbers. Accents for trellises, fences and other living walls. Long, strong stems are ideal for cutting. Soft pastel flowers are blushed cream, with the standard and wing petals brushed...

Just one cluster of cut stems delicately permeates a room with a pure, clean scent. Vines ramble to 6 ft.; an ideal choice for flowing over patio urns or climbing up a small garden trellis.

Sweet Peas will flutter into your heart, with their fairylike form, storybook charm and dreamy sweet fragrance. Great in floral arrangements and early spring bouquets. Erewhon is a reverse bicolor, with pale pink standard petal and mid-blue wings.

Transplant outside as soon as the soil can be worked. Pinch when 6-8" tall to encourage denser branching and more flowers. Sweet Peas do not store well, but if necessary store at a temperature of 36-39°F (2-4°C), providing at least 12 hours of light...

All have a slight honey or orangey aroma and make excellent spring cut flowers. Henry Eckford, the father of modern sweet peas and the leading developer in the late 1800s, produced over 100 varieties.

An old-fashioned looking sweet pea, with room-filling fragrance. GARDEN HINTS: Sow near a fence or trellis, in a sunny area, as soon as the soil can be worked in the spring. Plants are heat tolerant.

We are in love with this standout variety and its large, dense gorgeous clusters of blush cream petals, brushed rosy wing petals and pink picotee. Sun, partial shade. The strong-stemmed statuesque plants, standing 4' tall, will quickly cover a trellis...

Seedlings won't be damaged by a late frost.Mulch to keep the roots cool. Keep soil surface moist until emergence. From the Spencer series. Sow 2 seeds directly into each cell or 3-4" pot, 1/4- 1/2" deep.

After pre-chilling, place seed on sterile seedling mix and cover lightly. When the seedlings are about 10 inches tall, pinch out the growing point to allow for more branching. The early bloom season makes Mammoth an excellent choice for early spring color.

We think you'll find just what you're looking for. It boasts colors in shades of white, cream, pink, rose, scarlet, and purple. Sow indoors and cover lightly. Pyrethrin will control most insects.

After pre-chilling, place seed on sterile seedling mix and cover lightly. When the seedlings are about 10 inches tall, pinch out the growing point to allow for more branching. A masterpiece in sweet peas, this exquisite mix is perhaps our fanciest with...