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Post by steve2t on Feb 1, 2013 21:37:26 GMT
Believe you me , if we could, we would be there now!!! We love the area and were married in a Saxon church within the Saint's near Bungay. My wife worked in Bungay many years ago. We return there holidaying when we can, staying in a 500yr old b&b! & usually spending 2 days in Flixton air museum!!! But it looks unlikely that we will get there....Its an Equitable life Harry  |
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Post by dcdahlia on Feb 16, 2013 20:52:14 GMT
Joined the local wmc show after years of badgering this year and have decided to grow some sweetpeas for show.Any handy hints and tips will be greatly appreciated.The show is 14th sept.
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Post by edwin on Feb 16, 2013 21:22:04 GMT
Can anybody tell me how hardy sweatpeas are?
I know that you are used to put the seeds in before the winter and that it is probably already my answer but mine are just small green sticks out for a few days and because i dont want them to grow to fast, i want to put them outside already.
Protected from wind in a plastic greenhouse at home but it could still freeze 5 degrees next week, will this be a problem?
And is it enough to give them one stop?
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Post by Moonlight on Feb 16, 2013 21:26:47 GMT
Joined the local wmc show after years of badgering this year and have decided to grow some sweetpeas for show.Any handy hints and tips will be greatly appreciated.The show is 14th sept.  |
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Post by Tel on Feb 17, 2013 8:11:44 GMT
Joined the local wmc show after years of badgering this year and have decided to grow some sweetpeas for show.Any handy hints and tips will be greatly appreciated.The show is 14th sept. It means, Working Mens Club Moonlight, an outdated title for a Social Club. |
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Post by dcdahlia on Feb 17, 2013 10:06:53 GMT
Still working mens clubs in most villages and towns in the north east and most of them will have a veg and flower show with the biggest prize money paid out on giant pot leeks.
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Post by sweetpea on Feb 17, 2013 15:41:21 GMT
Still working mens clubs in most villages and towns in the north east and most of them will have a veg and flower show with the biggest prize money paid out on giant pot leeks. |
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Post by sweetpea on Feb 17, 2013 15:48:26 GMT
Can anybody tell me how hardy sweatpeas are?I know that you are used to put the seeds in before the winter and that it is probably already my answer but mine are just small green sticks out for a few days and because i dont want them to grow to fast, i want to put them outside already. Protected from wind in a plastic greenhouse at home but it could still freeze 5 degrees next week, will this be a problem? And is it enough to give them one stop? sweetpeas are incredibly hardy edwin. I was away from home one winter and the sweetpeas were in an open frame and that year the temperature dropped to -25C they were frozen solid for about ten days or so and I didn't lose a single plant. However suddenthawing out can be damaging so shade any frozen plants and let thaw out slowly. What will damage them is moving them from a warm/sheltered environment to a cold one without adequate hardening off so accustom them gradually to outdoor conditions as you would with any other plant. |
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Post by edwin on Feb 17, 2013 19:47:11 GMT
Thanks Sweetpea, first year i got them so early at home. Few years before i have been seeding them end of march only on their place in the garden so not to much frost anymore then. But germination wasnt that good then so trying it different way this year.
What about pinching them back? Only once?
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Post by sweetpea on Feb 17, 2013 22:49:50 GMT
Thanks Sweetpea, first year i got them so early at home. Few years before i have been seeding them end of march only on their place in the garden so not to much frost anymore then. But germination wasnt that good then so trying it different way this year. What about pinching them back? Only once? I don't pinch out my autumn sown peas only when springor more correctly, winter sown ones. I find pinching out the leader encourages side shoots from every axil. Ok if you are growing bush, ie lots of flowers but not much stem length. if you grow on cordons you will have to restrict all this extra growth to one or sometimes with a particularly strong variety, two shoots. That is then a double cordon with each shoot growing up a cane. |
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Post by scrumpy on Feb 23, 2013 12:53:15 GMT
I will be stopping my sweet peas this weekend, so that I will have some nice side shoots when I plant out 3rd week in March, weather permitting.
Over winter, lost 3 or 4 out of about 150.
All plants came from my own saved seeds, some varieties germinated better than others. Out of the seedlings, plenty of Maroon, not to many whites or pinks, but enough to see if they stay true to colour.
Will give them a high nitrogen feed as soon as the compost thaws out as they have been in the compost since November, so a little boost won't hurt. That will be the only feed.
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Post by Moonlight on Feb 23, 2013 13:44:22 GMT
Scrumpy could you do a before and after photo shoot of your sweet peas please? Or am I too late?
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Post by scrumpy on Feb 23, 2013 15:12:08 GMT
will do.....looks like it will be tomorrow afternoon.
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Post by Moonlight on Feb 23, 2013 16:59:36 GMT
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Post by scrumpy on Feb 23, 2013 18:58:21 GMT
There you go. Done a few pots. They are about 6 inches tall. I cut back to just above the 2nd pair of leaves as shown by A. Looking for side shoots at B and C. Once they are growing nicely I cut off everything above B.  |
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