Growing Sweet Peas

Getting Started
Germination Rates
Growing On
Cultivation
Problems
Containers

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Growing Sweet Peas

We cannot grow your seeds for you.  We cannot control the weather, pests and diseases.  But we can provide you with information that will help you successfully grow sweet peas.  We have six pages of growing tips.
Sweet peas do best in climates that have cool summers, where they may bloom from May or June until October.  If you live in an area with hot summers you can still grow sweet peas, but they will not bloom as long- maybe for six weeks.
We learn from our own successes and mistakes and from those of our customers.  Please contact us, let us know where you live, climate and weather conditions, what you did, and how it worked (or didn't work). 
First, a few common myths about sweet peas are incorrect:
"Plant Sweet Peas on President's Day".  Wrong! (See when to plant)
"Sweet Peas cannot be transplanted". Wrong!  (See germination and transplanting)

Sweet Pea Culture

Getting started

Germ Rates Growing on Cultivation Problems Containers
When to plant   Structure Feeding Slugs Growing in containers
Site selection   Transplanting Watering Damping off  
Germination     Tying plants Root rot  
      Cutting flowers Wireworms  
      Weeding Aphids  
        Virus  
        Bud drop  
        Mildew  

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