Planting Sweet Peas In Pots

Shield from direct hot sun. Soft pastel flowers are blushed cream, with the standard and wing petals brushed and banded deep pink. Accents for trellises, fences and other living walls.

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.

Seedlings won't be damaged by a late frost.Mulch to keep the roots cool. Long stems bear 3-5 blooms. Compared to Elegance Salmon Rose, Elegance Watermelon's blooms are a shade darker.

This mix of his best has an incredible color range: shell pink, maroon, violet, cream, blue and crimson striped with white. We've selected only the best for you. Henry Eckford, the father of modern sweet peas and the leading developer in the late 1800s,...

Mulching is recommended to keep soil cool and conserve moisture. Beautiful collection of colors. Plants grow best in cool weather. An old-fashioned looking sweet pea, with room-filling fragrance.

The strong-stemmed statuesque plants, standing 4' tall, will quickly cover a trellis with fragrant blooms. Strong-stemmed plants are best supported with trellises or grown along fences.

Thin to one plant when the true leaves appear. Keep soil surface moist until emergence. Spencer series flowers are known as late-flowering because they require at least 12 daylight hours, unlike more modern sweet pea varieties bred for winter production,...

Plants produce a profusion of bright ruffled blooms in a rainbow of colors. (Lathyrus) Annual. (16”) Bijou Mix is a bush-type Sweet Pea perfect for window boxes, borders or beds, yet has stems long enough to cut.

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.

Germination occurs between 70-85°F and within 6-15 days. To prolong flowering, mulch heavily to keep the soil cool, fertilize lightly during the blooming season, and remove old blossoms.

Cut with a clean knife that has been dipped in a solution of 10% household bleach. Given at the end of each description to give you specific information. Seal and place bag in an area where the temperature is around 60°F for 2-3 days.

Once the vines start to bloom, cut the flowers for arrangements and enjoy. Water regularly during warm, dry conditions to keep them blooming. Seed is rare and not always available.

Vining varieties need support to climb – provide them some sort of terrace or garden netting. A true market winner! (Annual, 72″ tall) Learn more about Growing Sweet Peas here.

Soak seeds overnight prior to planting to improve germination and sow — 1/2 inch deep — as soon as the soil can be worked in early spring. This old time heirloom flower was introduced before 1907.

Sow the seeds an inch deep, spacing climbing types 6 inches apart and bush types 1 foot apart. You canin warm water for 24 hours to soften the seed coat, or nick the seeds with a file or sharp knife to make it easier for water to penetrate the seed.Choose...

In fact, they'll often die back once the temperatures rise.Getting blooms on sweet peas once they've been hit with high nitrogen fertilizer is more challenging. The more light the plants have, the better they flower.

Avoid nitrogen problems with sweet peas by using ainstead. It's simply the result of the weather and environment.You can expect to see sweet peas dropping buds when night temperatures below 30 degrees Fahrenheit (-1 C.) follow a warm day.

Germination occurs between 70-85°F and within 6-15 days. To prolong flowering, mulch heavily to keep the soil cool, fertilize lightly during the blooming season, and remove old blossoms.

Vining varieties need support to climb – provide them some sort of terrace or garden netting. This is a very old variety, dating to the early 1700s. Soak seeds overnight prior to planting to improve germination and sow — 1/2 inch deep — as soon...

This article explains how to collect sweet pea seeds.Old fashioned or heirloom sweet peas are charming and fragrant flowers. Line a flat surface, such as a countertop or cookie sheet, with newspaper and let the seeds dry for about three days.

It's one of the wonders of growing these delightful vines. Pinching out sweet peas will force the plant hormones called auxins to move to the side or auxiliary tips. By the 1880s, Henry Eckford began hybridizing the sweet scented blooms for more color...

Needs darkness to germinate. Seal and place bag in an area where the temperature is around 60°F for 2-3 days. Vines average 4-5 feet long. Needs a period of pre-chilling. Early watering and good weed control will generally alleviate most problems.

As with anything grown in containers, they are subject to drying out faster and, therefore, require more watering, especially in hot, dry conditions and temps over 85 F. If your summers are very hot and your winters aren't freezing, plant your peas in...

Protect the delicate blossoms from the ravages of intense afternoon heat and mulch around the plants to retain moisture and regulate soil temps to extend the bloom time of these little beauties.Since they are members of the legume family, people often...

Needs darkness to germinate. Seal and place bag in an area where the temperature is around 60°F for 2-3 days. Vines average 4-5 feet long. Needs a period of pre-chilling. Early watering and good weed control will generally alleviate most problems.

Cut with a clean knife that has been dipped in a solution of 10% household bleach. Given at the end of each description to give you specific information. Seal and place bag in an area where the temperature is around 60°F for 2-3 days.