Growing Sweet Peas In Troughs
Plant sweet pea seeds in autumn or spring.
Growing sweet peas in troughs. Intermediate varieties need the same growing medium but with shorter supports. Sweet peas love a rich moist soil so dig a couple of buckets of compost into the planting area beforehand to enrich the soil and hold moisture during dry weather. Plant your sweet peas out in a bright sunny spot in the garden that s easily accessible for regular picking.
As the roots of peas are shallow you re good to go with moderately deep but wide planters a trough windowbox or a. For tall and large bushier varieties choose pots that are 8 12 inches deep and as wide as. The size of the pot will depend on the types of peas and their varieties you re growing.
Plant out in mid spring and keep well watered. When you plant your container grown sweet peas depends a lot on where you live. To get the best blooms a method exhibition growers use is to nip out the energy sapping side shoots and tendrils.
Regular picking encourages more flowers to form so keep picking those blooms for the vase. You can do a. The trough is about 6 deep.
I grew mine like that last year just keep them well watered and they will be fine. It doesn t have to be homemade compost you can buy a bag of something water retaining and soil improving like compost or rotted manure. Sweet peas in troughs 11 04 2010 11 19 am.
Dwarf varieties need no support at all and will grow very successfully in low troughs. But wherever you decide to plant them you ll need to provide a suitable support as sweet peas are climbers. The sweet peas don t do that well here south west france so i put them on the shadier side because it can be too hot for them in summer.
Now i just do beans but it used to work as you said when i lived in england. As with growing sweet peas in the garden it is essential to remove the flowers as they appear to keep continuity of flowering. Start feeding sweet peas with a high potash fertiliser such as tomato food when flower buds appear.
How to grow sweet pea flowers in pots plant your peas in a container that s at least 6 inches 15 cm deep and 8 inches 20 cm in diameter. When plants are 10cm tall pinch out the tips to encourage bushy growth. I put rotted manure in the bottom.
Most varieties have tendrils that will self cling to supports but some sweet peas will need tying in. How to grow sweet peas at home. I ve grown sweet peas and runner beans just as you said but i always grow 2 beans per cane.
Hi i am hoping to grow some sweet peas on a trough to then train up a fence will this work. Plant your peas 2 inches 5 cm apart and when they re a few inches high thin them to 4 inches 10 cm apart.
