sweet peas

bermary

People say to keep sweet peas flowering you should keep cutting the flowers off,what I would like to know is where do you cut the flowers from,is it just the parts coming away from the main stems if not where do you cut them from. Thanks

DaftyDuck

The flowers grow on a long stalk off the stem, with three or four flowers on that stem. Clip it off anywhere below the flowers, on that single sticky stem... just below the developing pea pods will do. There's no need to cut any of the main plant. All you want to do is remove the pea pods... if the plant "thinks" it's made successful seed, it puts more energy into fattening them up, and less into flower formation.

As a general principle, flowers of most plants can be cut off once they are past it, and the plant will benefit.