A big fat crop of Sweet Peas went into the greenhouse yesterday. It’s amazing how quickly the entire space was transformed once the posts, paths and plants were in.
I haven’t grown a crop of the fragrant beauties in there in 3 years. Remembering back, it was our most abundant, long stemmed harvest to date.
With the wind protection and early start the vines grew at an insane rate. In no time they clung onto the fans that are 9ft. up on the ceiling (pictured below)!
It’s still a bit too cold outside to plant the others, so for now they are safely tucked in the seed greenhouse with all of their spring friends like bachelor buttons, queen anne’s lace, bells of Ireland, snapdragons and giant pansies.
It sure feels good to get moving, get my hands in the dirt and have so much fresh air. Yeah for spring!
I still can’t believe these teeny, tiny seedling will soon look like this!
Nancy Chambers on
Good morning! I used to live in Sonoma County CA and had wonderful success with sweet peas! They were SO easy to grow there! I basically threw them in the ground and away they went! But now I live in Texas (zone 8) and am trying my luck in this new environment. My husband built me a beautiful 8′ x 2.5′ raised bed cedar planter w/trellis in the back yard (safe from deer visitors!). I started my Floret sweet pea seeds indoors about 3 weeks ago and followed all of your instructions listed on your site.
When you said above, “It’s still a bit too cold outside to plant…”, what temperature range would be acceptable for my little seedling babies to go outside? I feel confident that we are past the threat of spring frost, but some mornings have been 44–47 degrees F, warming up to 82 degrees by 4 pm. Your thoughts?? I know you’re insanely busy this time of the year, but I’d sincerely appreciate hearing from you. Thanks so much! :-)