How To Sow Sweet Pea Flower Seeds In The Autumn | Cool Flowers
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- Sowing Cool Flower Sweet Pea Seeds in October in zone 8b, Scotland for blooms in next years cut flower garden.
Did you know you can sow sweet pea seeds now in the autumn? This will give you stronger plants, longer stems and earlier flowers next year if you can get them through the winter. Sweet peas like cooler weather and should grow into great sturdy plants if sown now. This week I am doing a sowing of sweet pea seeds and I take you through this, where I source my seeds and how I do it.
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Thankyou Catherine, very informative. I'm going to give it a go 🙂
That’s great, let us know how you get on 🙂
Luckily we can direct sow our sweet peas here in NZ. I sowed quite a few in April which are now climbing rampantly - not flowering yet though. The funniest thing was last year I had sweet pea 'volunteers' which came up out of the edge of our gravel driveway of all places, and they flowered profusely all summer after I made a temporary frame for them. Good advice about soaking the seeds though. I did that for the first time this year and I'm sure it helped with germination.
It’s funny how the self seeded flowers can often be the best, the ones we have given no attention to at all! I had visitors to the garden this summer who were exclaiming over the cynoglossum and daucus dara I had growing. They were self seeded ones and in completely the wrong place but they liked them the best 😂
Thanks again for this wonderful video on how to sow sweet peas. I bought a packet of the Royal Family mixture variety from Ed Hume Seeds and the instruction is very general. The other videos I watched used root trainers but you don't. Your approach re containers is quite practical and am glad I saw your video as I was about to order some trainers from Amazon. Update on my ranunculus - I have transplanted about 36 plants to the ground over the weekend (under my homemade low tunnel) and a few anemone "fronds?" are starting to emerge.Yes!
Hello Cristine, root trainers are great I think when your sweet peas are going to be growing in them for a short time before you plant them out. I find pots of sweet peas much easier to look after over the long winter months and less tangled stems from being so close together if in the root trainers. It's great when you start to see some foliage coming up on the anemones and ranunculus. Lots of hope for some lovely flowers after the winter. Mine have started sprouting so I will have to get them potted up soon. This week job has been lifting dahlias!
interesting, I thought the roots didn't like being disturbed and so are sown in tubes or sweet pea trainers
You are right they don’t like getting disturbed and they do need deep pots or root trainers to grow into. I use the seed trays just until I get germination and then pot them on pretty quickly before the roots have a chance to get going. I plant them into pots in the winter as I like being able to look after them individually and see what’s going on rather than them growing quite large side by side in a root trainer and getting tangled. I use root trainers more in the late winter/spring sowings as they don’t spend so long in them and don’t develop into quite as big plants so easier to handle.
@@cloudberryflowers-flowerfarm that makes a lot of sense as that has happened to mine before they get tangled and then its harder to untangle them to plant them which then becomes a frustrating job , I saw monty just plant his straight from a square black pot into the ground
When do you transplant into the ground then?
Thanks for watching, I transplant into the ground in March each year.