Sweet Peas keep dying

lovebug_rita

HI,

New to gardening so please be gentle !

I've heard sweet pea are easy to grow apparently so why do mine keep dying ?
I've bought them from QVC as small plug plants - 5 per little pod type of thing and they look lovely and all pinched out with lots of roots. then i plant up into pots them and keep them indoors - but despite everything they just either fall over dead or turn a yellow colour and die. i've tried watering them regularly and watering them a bit less incase i was overwatering and sitll i'm always left with a pile of dead plants :-s

please help !!

Rita

moodykerry

I always put my sweet peas straight outdoors, I don't have anywhere inside to put them anyway. They always seem happy enough. Sweet peas work well from seed, planted straight into pots outside I have found. Unless a frost gets em of course.
Good luck, hope you get some lovely flowers this year

jimthejimjim

I got some just recently from the garden centre (ready grown) put them straight outside and their doing good, especially after the recent downpours. Before the rain i was watering every 2-3 days.
I've got them growing in pots.

Kantankrus_Mare

Ive grown sweet peas from seed for the first time.

I started them off last autumn and once they got going, potted them into individual pots and left them in my mothers greenhouse. She watered them regularly and gave them the occasional tomato feed. Put them out into the garden and a few at the bottom of the allotment, a couple of weeks ago, and they are looking pretty healthy.

Hoping Im going to get lots of lovely blooms off them as they remind me of my nanna who passed away 10 years ago. She always had these growing in her garden when I was a child.

krisskross

lovebug_rita wrote: »

HI,

New to gardening so please be gentle !

I've heard sweet pea are easy to grow apparently so why do mine keep dying ?
I've bought them from QVC as small plug plants - 5 per little pod type of thing and they look lovely and all pinched out with lots of roots. then i plant up into pots them and keep them indoors - but despite everything they just either fall over dead or turn a yellow colour and die. i've tried watering them regularly and watering them a bit less incase i was overwatering and sitll i'm always left with a pile of dead plants :-s

please help !!

Rita

I am no help at all but will commiserate. I am trying sweet peas for the 1st time as well. Although they are still alive they look a bit sickly with very little growth.They have been out in a trough thing in the garden for a couple of weeks. Hope they pick up soon..cost me 65p.

youngie

have you got them in a window the glass will magnify the suns rays and scorch them

lovebug_rita

thanks for all the suggestins - maybe i'll be better off potting them off and leaving them outside afterall as they are indoors away from direct sunlight. good luck with all ur sweet peas, hopefully my plants will perk up as its a little dishearterning watching them die :-s

Kantankrus_Mare

Well we are into July and Im so pleased with my sweet peas.

getting loads of blooms off them which I keep snipping for a vase which never seems to be empty.

Been to the allotment today tho and noticed they have some pods on them Tiny peas inside. Im assuming these are seeds but can I use these for next years sweet peas? Im new to all this and am so excited that something I started off from seed has done so well.:D

CountryWife_2

Hi KM,
Cut off the pods on your sweet peas otherwise they will stop flowering. Once the plants start to set seed they will think they dont need to flower anymore, as they will have done their job of reproducing themselves! The more flowers you pick the more they will flower. At the end of the season, ie sept/oct then you can collect the seeds when they dry, and use them for next years sweet peas. if you plant them in october they will flower early the next year, they are fairly hardy.

Waxy_Bean

I planted lots of sweet peas this year - the ones I put in the ground thrived, but the ones I put in pots went really yellow, I replanted them in the ground and they have recovered wonderfully. I wonder if sweet peas don't like being grown in pots??

MRSTITTLEMOUSE

I always put the seeds straight in the ground,marked by a support,they always seem to thrive.They don't seem to like realy heavy ground though,and the deadheading as Countrywife said already is so imprtant to keep them flowering.