'While sweet peas can grow beautifully in containers, avoid using small pots or shallow planters,' says Georgina. 'Their roots grow deep and need room to develop. Without space, the plants can ...

I’ve loved sweet peas for as long as I can remember. I mean, who couldn't be obsessed with their ruffled little petals and unrivalled scent? My all-time favorite? 'Matucana,' most probably, a heritage ...

There's nothing quite as fragrant as sweet peas. You can make this lovely English garden-type scene a reality in your yard, but you need to act now, because fall is prime time for planting this ...

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.

Start sweet peas indoors anytime between Feb. 1 and March 15. Sow one seed in each 2-inch or larger plastic pot filled with sterilized potting soil or a peat pot.

Monty Don advised gardeners on how they can prolong sweet pea flowering. He says now is the perfect time to buy seeds and sow for flowering throughout summer. ... WHY YOU CAN POT SWEET PEAS.

Fall planting of sweet peas in pots and containers will produce seedlings that can sail through our winters, and that means you'll get a head start on next year's garden when you plant them out in ...

Sweet peas have long roots and even with large 15-gallon containers — plus an inverted tomato cage with tines lathed together at the top to form a makeshift obelisk — they didn't grow well.

• Soak sweet pea seed overnight to soften the hard seed coat. Sow three to four seeds, 1 inch deep, in pots of moistened seed starting mix. Seeds will germinate in seven to 10 days.

"Use a good quality compost and sow several sweet pea seeds to a pot. Plant them about 1cm deep, cover with compost and water them well." DON'T MISS ...

The brown-specked ‘Chocolate Streamer’ sweet peas are rare and unusual. ( Baker Creek Seed Co. ) The brown-specked ‘Chocolate Streamer’ sweet peas are rare and unusual. ( Baker Creek Seed ...