Poor sweet peas again

[Marb67]

For the life of me I don't know what goes wrong whenever I plant nursery, healthy grown sweet peas. I give them organic matter, good nursery compost and they hardly put up any flowers. Tried to boost with dilute comrey and still no joy. Something is making the leaves paper thin by eating them. It's not slugs.

They just look pale and insipid. They are planted in a deep, long tom pot in sunshine.

[WPG]

They look a bit crowded to me Marb, maybe 2 or 3 plants in that pot would've been enough.

Hasn't been a great year for my sweet peas, most of them got eaten by slugs

[bearded bloke]

I would go along with possibly overcrowded, have you nipped out the growing tips ?, tell yer what though Marb yours are three times the height of mine, so you must be doing something right. Regarding flowering, I think they will be a few weeks late this year due to the unseasonally cold weather we've been having.

[bearded bloke]

Thinking on, it's only a fortnight to the Wem sweet pea show, there are a lot of knowledgable members in the Eckford society who are happy to give advice, if you have time it's well worth a visit .... Wem Sweet Pea Show - Shropshire Tourism & Leisure Guide ... I shall be there on Saturday afternoon in the black bazinga tee shirt

[Alison]

They look better than mine do this year, really rubbish after I'd Sen loads and had really good young plants! Blame the weather.

[Nicos]

Those are going to flower...just hang on there!

You've done way better than me....out of 6 packets sown they have rotted or been eaten, leaving me with a sum total of.........







wait for it.......





Zilch.


not one plant at all

suppose that means no flowers then either ?
Ah well....
Enjoy your success so far Marb - be nice to see piccies of the flowers please when they do get round to blooming

oh...I just spotted that lovely pink flower!...does it smell nice? ( remember to dead head it to encourage more flowers)

[Marb67]

I have had 2 flowers so far. Yes, I nipped all the tops out ages ago.

Thanks for the encouracgement anyway.

[bearded bloke]

Ere yer go Marb, mine, taken less than 5 min's ago, tallest is 16" & not a single bud to be seen ......

[Martin H]

They are much too crowded, Marb, that's why they are a bit spindly. But you will get flowers eventually, it's just that everything is slow this year. Even down here in sunny Essex, my end-Feb-sown ones only started flowering last week.

BB, your plants look really strong, that fence is going to look brilliant once they start flowering!

[Bren In Pots]

Some of mine are as tall as yours Marb then in a different part of the garden they're a couple of inches high no flowers yet.

[skeggijon]

Looking much better than mine too Marb.

[Alison]

On a plus point though my perennial sweet peas are going great guns.

[Containergardener]

Ahead of mine Marb .

Funny you should say that Alison , mums have been rampant this yr

[Dorothy rouse]

I thought mine weren't going to do anything, so threw in another whole packet! Bit of a jungle now, have had about 6 pathetic little stems! But they are coming now, but take about overcrowded! But I don't care, as long as I get some flowers!

[bramble]

Sweetpeas.

MynSweetpeas taken this afternoon.
This is the first time I sowed my Sweetpeas in the autumn and it seems to hsve paid off.