Dying sweet peas

[Marb67]

Another dying plant to notch up for my record. Sweet peas potted in rich compost and kept at right moisture and fed with comfry once a week. Stems going dry, the colour of straw for absolutley no reason. What could be causing this ?

[Thelma Sanders]

It's what they do, I'm afraid, especially in hot/dry weather.
Like their vegetable cousins, they produce a certain amount of flowers/pods and then die. Continual picking/removing seed pods helps prolong their productivity, but they will never last all summer, in my experience.
Sometimes it helps to sow some more as you plant the first lot on the canes.

[Marb67]

Ok, thanks. We have been picking flowers as and when so at least we jave had something ff them.

[burnie]

It is odd, I have plants in a very hot greenhouse and some outside of said glass and both are very strong and to be honest a bit neglected these past few weeks apart from cutting each day for a vase in the house, even forget to water them.

[Baldy]

mine have been a bit meh this year - lack of care and lack of water I guess

[veggiechicken]

Mine are dying back too - its my fault, I haven't been picking them enough, or watering/feeding the pot they're in.
I'm going to sow some today and see if I can grow some more before winter Its the very least I can do for the poor dying specimens I've ill treated.

[burnie]

I am of the opinion that some things don't seem to like growing in pots for long, my sweet peas are in the ground, so can maybe tolerate a bit of neglect. Their cousins of the sugar snap variety haven't fared that well in a large pot.