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  • Sweetpeas - can I chance it yet?

    Can I put them out yet or should I just cool my heels for another couple of weeks?

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    Have you hardened them off, if yes and you have a spare bit of fleece then you may be okay, when is your last frosts usually early May.

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    • #3
      From reading older threads on here, I gather sweet peas are hardy, so as long as they've been hardened off they'll be fine outside.

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      • #4
        They are hardy - they can be sown in Spetember and go out over winter! Do harden them off though. Sudden shocks do more harm than anything else.
        Whoever plants a garden believes in the future.

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        • #5
          Mine have been in for 3 weeks now, going great guns!
          Imagination is everything, it is a preview of what is to become.

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          • #6
            As Flum says, they are hardy. Mine went outside in March, and are now 2 foot tall.
            All gardeners know better than other gardeners." -- Chinese Proverb.

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            • #7
              I would hold on a few weeks more up there Amanda. When we were there we had frost in June one year and I lost the lot - about 80 plants. I used to grow them everywhere as they are so gorgeous, up trees & ugly fencing.

              Jules
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              • #8
                October sowing are 3 feet tall and flowering, spring sowing are catching up fast!!
                Family motto "semper in excretum"

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                • #9
                  Mine have been in for nearly 6 weeks & are doing really well.

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                  • #10
                    mine are fine too, reckon you can go for it!

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                    • #11
                      Frost won't kill them, unless they're put out without being hardened off properly - put them out in the day and in at night, for a week or so, then leave them out overnight with a bit of protection (fleece or a bit of polythene) for a couple of days. Should be safe enough to plant them then

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                      • #12
                        As previous posts, hardened them off, they'll do fine, might sulk for a few days, but mine have been out about 3/4 weeks, around 1' tall and climbing

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                        • #13
                          My ones are lazy-they were planted outside a few weeks ago and slowly starting to come up.

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                          • #14
                            I didn't really harden mine off...just moved them from a unheated greenhouse outside and then into the ground. 80% of them are doing okay - a couple of them have gone a bit yellow and stunted but the rest are going great guns!

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                            • #15
                              yes - mine are lazy too. I planted them out when they were about 2 inches tall 3 weeks ago and they haven't really gone anywhere since!

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