Sweet Peas keep dying

Kantankrus_Mare

CountryWife wrote: »

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.

So if I collect all the pods now..........do I leave them intact till I want the seeds or do I pod them and keep the seeds somewhere dry?

Also read that they like to be grown in tolet roll tubes and then plant the whole thing in the ground in spring so as to avoid root disturbance.

I was going through some trauma when I put my young sweet pea plants in my mams green house last year but tripped as I went into her house dropping the lot all over her conservatory :eek:

has not affected the results though

jimthejimjim

Waxy_Bean wrote: »

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??

Mine are all dead:(

They were all in pots as i have a mainly flagged yard. But i did overcrowd them a bit. (Inexperience) But I'll try again next year.
If at first you don't succeed Try and try again


Just remembered, when i went on holiday, my waterer didnt do any watering. So that didn't help either!

Crazy_Hamster

I have some patio sweet peas in pots and they were doing well but have now gone a little yellow so I'm going to feed them with a nitrogen, which helps the leaves, and pot ash feed, which should help them flower.

The ones I have in the ground are in semi shade and a very wet spot (because of all the rain) but have run away and are now up to 6'' tall with masses of flowers. So in the future I will remember to water them well as this is the first year they've done well.

CountryWife_2

you wont be able to collect the seeds yet as they will not be mature enough. in the autumn when you stop picking them they will go dry and brown and start to split. that is the right time to collect the pods. Also like all peas and beans they need plenty of watering for them to thrive.

shelagh

i have sweet peas in pots and they are huge and bushy but have no flowers on yet, is this normal or is there aproblem?
thanks
Shelagh