On 11/02/2011 16:56, kay wrote:
stuart noble;912627 Wrote:
My sweet peas, sown indoors about a week ago in individual pots, have
started to germinate. From what I can gather, they should now be put
outside in a cold frame with as much sunlight as possible, but I don't
have a cold frame, and the only bit of my garden that gets winter sun is

rather high up on a south facing wall.

My plan is to put them in transparent sandwich bags and hang them from a

shelf I have on that wall so that the plastic stays upright and doesn't

get flattened by wind or rain. This should give them 6" or so of growth

before I plant them out in March. I also have a serious snail problem
and hopefully they won't find their way into the bags.

Is this crazy or flawed in some way? I'm sure it is.

My experience is that, although snails love the pea family in general,
sweet peas, along with culinary peas and broad beans, are relatively
unattractive to them.





Well, last year something took a nip right at the base and left them
lying in a heap. I just don't trust them :-)