N o summer garden is complete without sweet peas. With super-abundant, delicate flowers with a heavenly perfume, they are addictive to grow, not least for their cut-flower potential, filling our homes ...

When to pinch out sweet peas. Pinch out the growing tip of the plant when three or four pairs of leaves have formed. This helps to promote healthy, bushy growth. Overwintering sweet plants. Once ...

Sherman grows over 3,000 plants each year and sows all her seed by putting single seeds into 2-inch plastic pots. She then transplants them into the garden, spacing the seedlings about 8 inches apart.

When your plant is producing fewer and fewer blooms, usually by late July or August, it is time to stop feeding. Once you have reached this stage, no amount of fertilizer can bring the plant back ...

Fragrant sweet pea flowers are ready for picking at this Moorpark farm We can almost smell them from here. By Alysia Gray Painter • Published June 5, 2023 • Updated on June 5, 2023 at 6:04 pm ...

Delicate sweet pea flowers (Image: Getty) As the days begin to brighten and the temperature warms up (just a little bit), many of us are venturing back out into our gardens again.

But the devoted flower farmer has so much more to say. “Sweet Pea School” opens with a look into the history and provenance of sweet peas, beginning with the familiar story of a 17th-century ...

And the best thing about toilet rolls - is that you don't need to take the plants out - you can just put the whole thing - plant and toilet roll - into the soil.

Q: I grew sweet peas this summer and loved filling the house with their flowers. The plants have finished and I was going to clear them away to the compost heap but noticed a lot of pods on them.