Sow Sweet Peas in January! 🫛💐
Sweet peas are hardy, fragrant, produce attractive pollinators enticing flowers and are a great way to overcome those January blues when the spring garden feels oh so far away! 😔🌱
They can be sown from January to as late as May and I sow them successionally throughout, but it’s nice to have some earlier flowers around the gardens so I start sowing them started now. 😊👍🏻
Today I’m sowing the varieties ‘green fingers’ and ‘almost black’ which has an amazing scent.
Sweet pea seeds have a thick seed coat so I soak them overnight prior to planting to speed up germination, then sow seeds individually at a depth of around twice their size, and cover with compost.
I sow mine into deep cell seed trays, but it is often advised that they are sown in decomposable root trainers, or you could just use toilet roll tubes and plant out the whole thing to minimise root disturbance.
Water them well and place inside somewhere that has a nice level ambient temperature and as soon as they begin to emerge, move them to a sunny windowsill or a greenhouse or polytunnel if you have one. 🌱
Id then cover with fleece through the colder evenings if in a greenhouse or tunnel.
And When the plants are around 10cm tall, pinch out the growing point, which encourages bushier growth, and then just plant out after the last chance of a hard frost and give them something to climb like a bamboo structure.
Happy sowing and thanks for watching 😊🌱
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Whats your hardiness zone?