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Had the worst season ever for Sweet-peas.

That's a shame Shallot Man, as they can be spectacular in a good year....a real favourite of mine.

Yes mine not very good. Rather puny but have grown a bit bigger with watering every day.

Two people I could have given some away to! We can't keep up with picking them so we are in danger of a short season as they will give up.

Glad yours are doing well Geoff. I love sweet peas. I think I'll buy some more Spencer varieties next year and chuck the others out.

I need to go through my seed store and be ruthless with the older stuff and free ones I'm never going to grow. I've no one to give them to since I stopped going to the allotment. I sometimes just scatter vegetable seeds on a spare bit of garden and rake them in as a cut and come again salad mix or ground cover, but it's so dry they would need a lot of water to get going. I think a lot of the flower seeds are so old they wouldn't grow anyway. I'll have to allocate a bit of garden to these and do a flower strip to see what grows, but will wait til it rains.

I used a collection from Eagle Sweet Peas (separate packets) and individual varieties from Premier Seeds Direct, both have done well. Picked every open flower on Sunday and this morning they are back to this.



We grow gourds for drying and I was rather surprised to find this flower this morning - only had the normal yellow ones before. It is on one called Speckled Swan and when I checked it did say ivory flowers.

Lovely sight of sweet peas Geoff.

Barney

A plot on our allotment site, that is nearly the same as Geoff's.....

Looks good OH. Have you done something to the colour it seems to have a blue tinge?