Growing Sweet Peas

Article by: Jody Taberner

Sweet peas have always been one of my favourite plants. , Patio Furniture Accessories I remember my Nanna having them growing , Watering Your Garden - How to Make Each Drop Count in her huge vegetable garden , Designing Your to Attract Hummingbirds for cut flowers , Soil, Drainage, and Water when I was young. I could never understand why she didn't just have them in the vast flower garden , Professional Lawn Watering Techniques - Wireless Sensors for Lawns in Drought Areas on the large Western District property , Watering Your Garden - How to Make Each Drop Count where she lived. These beautiful , Professional Lawn Watering Techniques - Wireless Sensors for Lawns in Drought Areas blooms outshine most other annuals , Lawn Care Tips - Six Easy Steps to a Great Lawn when it comes to fragrance and blooms.

Sweet peas are thought to have their origins in Sicily, China or Malta. But the first seeds , Redwood Outdoor Decor: Relax This Season With Furniture You Can Trust bought to England for cultivation were imported from Italy. They have been cultivated for hundreds of years and thus there are thousands of cultivars that have been developed through the centuries. Henry Eckford is credited with the development of what we know today as Sweet Peas in the late 1800's, having cross bred the original small and mainly purplish, sweet fragranced flowers , Make a Plan for Vacation Watering to create a range of various colours , Teak Planters - Accent Your Outdoor Space with One with larger flowers. , Pruning Trees By 1900, he had introduced a total of 115 cultivars of Sweet Peas. Many people since then have tried their hand at breeding Sweet Peas, with amazing frilly or striped varieties being created. Unfortunately, this has often been to the detriment of the fragrance.

Sweet pea breeder Dr Keith Hammett did a lot of work in the 1990's to retain the fragrance of Sweet peas while providing a range of bicolours, frilled and the ever elusive yellow Sweet pea.

His passion and perseverance paid off, with a range of his seed , How to Build Your Own Backyard Bat Cave now being available through outlets that stock Yates Seeds. , How to Grow Cucumbers Most of the plain colour, , Designing Your Garden to Attract Hummingbirds old fashioned varieties have retained their fragrance and are available through most nurseries and garden , Backyard Landscaping Ideas - A Guide To Evergreen Trees And Shrubs centres now for planting. If you don't have room , Daylily Just Plum Happy for the tall climbing varieties, there are dwarf forms suitable for garden , Healing Aloe Vera Plants Are Easy To Grow and Provide Health Benefits beds and pots. , Professional Lawn Watering Techniques - Wireless Sensors for Lawns in Drought Areas One of my favourites of the dwarf form is Bijou, I am particularly fond of the pale colour , How to Build Fences mix.

PROPAGATION
Being an annual, , Lawn Care Tips - Six Easy Steps to a Great Lawn it is most commonly grown from seed. , Summer Gardening Tips They can be planted either in mid autumn , Constructing a Garden Path to mid winter , Watering Your Garden - How to Make Each Drop Count or early to mid spring. , Make a Plan for Vacation Watering Sow the seed , 9-11 Changed Everything for the Garden Tractor Business directly into the open ground to a depth of around 1 to 2cm. You can aid germination of the seed , Professional Lawn Watering Techniques - Wireless Sensors for Lawns in Drought Areas if you soak it over night in luke warm water. , 5 Things To Consider Before Purchasing a Push Reel Mower Once you have planted them, give them a good soak, then water , Creative Ideas For Beautiful Garden Art once every few days lightly until the seedlings emerge in around 7 to 14 days.

CULTIVATION
Sweet peas should be grown in soil , Lazy Fish Worries enriched with organic , Redwood Outdoor Decor: Relax This Season With Furniture You Can Trust matter in full sun , Creating Wildlife Gardens with good drainage. For climbing varieties, make sure that they have an adequate climbing support. They will also benefit from a liquid fertiliser while in growth, but make sure you don't add a high nitrogen fertiliser around flowering , Daylily Just Plum Happy time.

To extend flowering, , Make a Plan for Vacation Watering dead head the old flowers , Low Maintenance Teak Furniture before they set seed. , How to Build Your Own Backyard Bat Cave Also ensure that they have adequate moisture. , Things You Should Consider When Buying Your First Garden Leaf Blower

They can be affected by a range of pests , Gardening on a Budget and diseases , How To Ensure Early Bulbs Bloom, Year After Year which can be easily controlled. The main culprits are slugs and snails on the new growth, aphids on flower , Gardening on a Budget buds and powdery mildew. To control the powdery mildew, avoid watering the foliage, and spray each week with a watered down chamomile tea.

If you haven't tried growing , Using the Right Hedge Trimmers in Lawn Care Sweet peas before, you could be missing , Gardening Basics: Inspecting Your Soil out on one of the darlings of the horticultural world. It's not hard or expensive. You can pick up seed , Care of Dendrobium Orchids at your local , Soil, Drainage, and Water nursery for around two or three dollars a packet, and once you have grown your own, you can collect the seed , How To Ensure Early Bulbs Bloom, Year After Year from them for the following year.

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Jody has been in the horticultural industry in Victoria for close to ten years.

She ran her first nursery at 25 while studying horticulture through the University of Melbourne. From there she moved on to work in three diverse nurseries in Melbourne and the country, two of which she managed. Jody also wrote a weekly gardening , The String Algae Blues column for The Weekly Advertiser for five years while running a small local , Summer Gardening Tips nursery in Horsham.

Currently Jody is teaching horticulture at the University of Ballarat, Horsham campus and is the resident Horticulturalist on ABC Western Victoria's Monday gardening , Dream Yard program.

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