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Hello all.....

I was wondering if I can still sow sweet peas???? I know it's getting late in the year. I live in Nottingham if that helps.... and any  tips on where to buy some from??

Many many

Thank you

I've saved my own this year and have just started some more off. Mind you, this is inside the cold greenhouse. I'm not sure if anywhere has them at the moment, it all seems to be Christmas stuff, maybe a garden centre?. Hope you find some 

Yes you can sow them fine now if they are in at least a cold greenhouse, or better still a little bit of bottom heat, just until they germinate.  But beware of hungry mice eating the seed.

Most garden centres should have seed available or get it mail order from somewhere like eagle sweet peas or seedparade or seedaholic.

what's the big rush ? why sow now? wait till spring.

You are rather between times for sowing just now. To get the best you need to sow in the autumn, I sow on Oct. 8th this is to get a really good root system for planting out in Feb/March. or you can sow in the early spring but you do not get such good plants or flower so early. I usually cut my first blooms around 24/35 May and then by layering they will flower until August. I used to exhibit a lot but since losing our garden I have not got the facilities. You can see some of my blooms are my website.