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Produce => Non Edible Plants => Topic started by: wahaj on August 29, 2006, 00:44:02
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i've got a lot of different varieties of sweet peas but i don't really have the space to grow them. except for the allotment which is chest high in weeds right now.
can i grow them in grow bags. basically i've got a paved over back yard that has no use. i want to train them up canes like edible peas sowed in grow bags....is that possible do you think?
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no idea (as mine were in the ground this year and took over like triffids) but worth a shot. Just keep em well fed and watered I would imagine.
;D
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I used to show sweet peas about 10 years ago and the prep of the beds was essential. A good deep digging and manuring so that the roots could get down. If I were you I would try some of the old fashioned sweet peas as they are a lot smaller but none the less just as beautiful and of course they smell better, You could try them growing up a wigwam in a pot. Hope that you are successful whatever you decide
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awww thanks you guys :)
yea i think i have some old fashioned ones aswell so i'll give them a shot.
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has to be said that the bed mine were in, was virgin compost with a tonne of other newly imported this year goodies so they were very well fed and the ground was very well dugover.
i'll remember that next year.
;D
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Sweet peas prefer a deep root run - I think you'd be better off emptyomg the growbags into big pots and growing your plants that way. Would look prettier, too :)
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Next year I'm going to grow living shading for my greenhouse by growing sweetpeas in deep troughs round it, and the soil will be growbag soil....neat idea, eh? 8)
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how much sun do they need ? i'm thinking of putting them the arch side of No. 1. i've only needed limited shading this year and my SPs have been out for months !
oh and brill idea, don't mind if i pinch it do you ?
:D
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Feel free..... :P ;)
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Last year I planted them along with the climbing beans and they were gorgeous. Didn't get my act together this year, and am now wondering whether 2006's smaller harvest may be partly because I had extra pollinating insects visiting last year for the sweet pea-French/runner bean combi.
*makes note to add sweet peas to veg seed purchases for next year*
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triffid, if there's a Wyvale GC near you - get them now. 25p a packet. Bought mine yesterday 8)
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i wish a had a wyevale near me. *sigh*
oh well!
but yes thanks for the help guys. i'll probably grow them in pots in that case.
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Cavalry to the rescue!
Have PM'd you :)
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bless yer heart!