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Our top 5 tips for collecting and storing sweet pea seeds will guarantee floral scent and color for years to come ...
The fragrance is not easily described, “but it is unforgettable,” said Glenys Johnson, who’s been been growing and selling seeds for the English Spencer variety of sweet peas through her ...
Sweet Peas. There is not a specific date to plant sweet pea seeds as long as you plant them in the fall: anytime in October, November or by early December.
Give (sweet) peas a chance: Sow your seeds now and these colourful climbers will fill your garden with perfume. By MARTYN COX Updated: 10:41 EDT, 26 January 2009 ...
The glory of the sweet-pea bloom is behind her, but Glenys Johnson still loves autumn, perhaps most of all. As she pulls the dry pods from her spent vines and opens them to remove the seeds, she ...
"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 ...
Pale lilac sweet peas in the bouquet's center is a fine companion to other homegrown flowers from the writer's garden. As victories go, most would not consider mine significant. Fellow gardeners ...
The UK's recent soaring temperatures have put a strain on many popular garden plants used to milder climes - fortunately ...
Even 5-year-old Callahan Evenson probably will go along to help plant the legume sweet pea seeds. The sixth-generation youngster “loves to ride the tractor with me,” his grandpa said.
Fragrant sweet peas are cool-season annuals whose seeds, like those of alyssum, larkspur, pansies, bachelor’s buttons and calendula, can be sown directly in rich garden soil once it has thawed ...
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 ...