Sweet peas are a perfect addition to any garden, providing beauty and a blissful fragrance. These heirloom flowers are easy to grow and come in a variety of vibrant colors.
Choosing Your Sweet Pea Variety
Sweet peas come in many colors, including pink, purple, blue, and cream. Some are climbing vines while others are low-growing, suitable for containers.
Planting Your Sweet Peas
Sweet peas are cool-weather plants. In warm climates, plant them in the fall, while in cold climates, plant them early in the spring. Soak seeds overnight before planting for better germination.
Caring for Your Sweet Peas
Provide moderate water, use balanced fertilizers like Ultra Bloom 0-10-10, and support climbing varieties with a trellis.
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Harvesting and Enjoying Sweet Peas
Regularly cutting flowers encourages more blooms. Keep plants healthy by removing spent flowers and managing pests like thrips.
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Siacri6, sow bugs or pill bugs, do mostly eat decaying material, but they can also eat other living plants. You can use something like Sluggo Plus that is labelled to control pill bugs. It will also kill slugs which can be a problem for sweet peas.
i was seeing my peas sprout then they would vanish leaving just the stripped pea seed lying there, rootless and leafless..everybody told me to ignore the pill bugs, “they only eat dead and dying plant matter,..focus on finding the slugs..” So i did..and i found a slug here and another there…tiny whitish slugs…and a couple days ago i noticed a pea seed emerging from the ground with its first leaves as if it were alive..i watched as the harmless little rolly polly hugged the pea and chewed the stem severing the leaves..then he rolled on his back hugging the seed and turned it roots up. crawled around and ate the roots off.. Since then ive observed this 6 more times.. so how do i dispose of these harmless little guys that are in such numbers they erupt from the softer ground like fluid if i disturb the areas where they dwell.. More damage than any aphid infestation has ever caused me.. help!!