Sweet Peas

Freezer cabinet at Sainsburys..pick em up , chuck em in.
Might not taste as good  fresh but i'm a bit of a philistine and theirs no watering involved.

flowers twizz flowers

My sweet peas have been rubbish this year. I have Sir Henry Cecil same as last year and also a packet called Mammoth Mix

My Runner beans looked fantastic with lots of flowers, but they were pretty much all dead sets in the end

ive had awide range of SPs and they all have  virtually done nothing. lasy year i  had hundreds of flowers

Hot weather has done for most Sweet Peas this year. Peas (veg) the same. The plants have dried out and gone white as if scorched

thanks rose i thought as much

we will try again next year Dragon!

indeed we wiill .quiet disappoited as a bought some really noce ones and grew them from seed . was looking forward to a great display this year!

worth paying the extra price for quality seed - some of the newer varieties are superb

indeed some amazing colours available

A moderate show even from the perennials this year:


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next door have the same perennial sfbw going to take some of the seeds and try them next year

I've always wanted to grow sweet peas but I'm no gardener.  Imagine them growing up a six foot chain-link fence creating a wall of colour.

Enough of this "sweet Pea" grief....

Look at the state of my baskets....

This year....


Last year...

I started peas out early , and they produced lots of pods . I added a few more each week and the latter ones did not liked the hot dry weather one bit , whereas runner beans have been bountiful.

Grown lots of sweep peas  , some have flowered and quickly gone to seed , others don't even have buds yet.

my baskets are allpretty grim too lady faye

sweet peas are really easy to grow from seed  eric they stike very easily

Dragon,
I got nowhere for them right now. There on my bucket list.

So disappointing TD....

They were larger, and luxuriously planted, and should have been spectacular!

Now a long wait for another season (unlike recovering on the next horse race) and I am almost looking forward to the winter blooms!

Having said that, my planters, pots, and "horse feeder" style troughs, are still looking good,

Unfortunately two expensive "Box" were on their way out (for some reason) since last season!

Re Peas.....

Sweet Peas have been hard this year, unless autumn sown. My spring sown ones have struggled though. My recommended varieties are White Supreme, and Robert Uvedale for next year.

The eating peas have been equally difficult, and I have sympathy for those that say the frozen ones are as good, but nothing beats shelling fresh peas with granddaughters.
No child should reach their teens without having extracted a real pea from a real pod.

indeed blackbarn indeed - nice post

yet to reach the grandad stage myself = started late in life on the family side!