My sweet peas grew very well and flowered well but some started dying
out too soon. I have grown sweet peas for years but this is the first
time this is occurring. I am located along the coast in So. CA.

best to plant the sweet peas early spring, just as the soil out in the garden starts to warm up, look for weed seedlings starting to peep through the soil, that tells you the soil is warming and moist enough, OR start indoors Feb in pots, once the seedlings are large enough to handle by the second set of true leaves, devide the seedlings into tall pots or special root trainer pots and grow them on till the soil is ready to plant them into their finnal place, say about May/June, by then you should have prepared the soil well in advance and added lots of compost, manure even better as sweet peas are hungry feeders, like watered well and you need to pinch out the growing tips as they get climbing to bush the plants out, or all the flowers will be way up top of the plants, you need to deadhead or pick the flowers constantly or the plants will go to seed very fast, also try to nip off the tendrils as they form because this uses up a lot of energy and you want flowers rather than tendrills, also the tendrils are inclined to twiast around the flower stems and bend or stunt the stem developement so you can pick nice long stems to take indoors to enjoy the sweet pea perfume

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tella.star wrote:

best to plant the sweet peas early spring, just as the soil out in the
garden starts to warm up, look for weed seedlings starting to peep
through the soil, that tells you the soil is warming and moist enough,
OR start indoors Feb in pots, once the seedlings are large enough to
handle by the second set of true leaves, devide the seedlings into tall
pots or special root trainer pots and grow them on till the soil is
ready to plant them into their finnal place, say about May/June, by
then you should have prepared the soil well in advance and added lots
of compost, manure even better as sweet peas are hungry feeders, like
watered well and you need to pinch out the growing tips as they get
climbing to bush the plants out, or all the flowers will be way up top
of the plants, you need to deadhead or pick the flowers constantly or
the plants will go to seed very fast, also try to nip off the tendrils
as they form because this uses up a lot of energy and you want flowers
rather than tendrills, also the tendrils are inclined to twiast around
the flower stems and bend or stunt the stem developement so you can
pick nice long stems to take indoors to enjoy the sweet pea perfume

Once established, you won't need to keep feeding them, as they fix
nitrogen and re-new the soil.
--

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On Apr 6, 6:08*pm, researcher wrote:
My sweet peas grew very well and flowered well but some started dying
out too soon. *I have grown sweet peas for years but this is the first
time this is occurring. *I am located along the coast in So. CA.

I'm running into the same problems in the same general area (SoCal
coast). I tried growing them last summer and they died but that was
because I had to go out of town for a few days and didn't water them.
I planted my current batch in early March when temperatures were in
the 60's and they grew very well and bloomed but are now almost
completely dead (despite keeping them well watered).

Hopefully someone can shed light on this.

What are your temperatures? Peas stop flowering when it's hot. Also, did
you remove all the spent blossoms? Once a sweet pea plant produces seeds,
it dies.

Andrew

"Sat" wrote in message
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On Apr 6, 6:08 pm, researcher wrote:
My sweet peas grew very well and flowered well but some started dying
out too soon. I have grown sweet peas for years but this is the first
time this is occurring. I am located along the coast in So. CA.

I'm running into the same problems in the same general area (SoCal
coast). I tried growing them last summer and they died but that was
because I had to go out of town for a few days and didn't water them.
I planted my current batch in early March when temperatures were in
the 60's and they grew very well and bloomed but are now almost
completely dead (despite keeping them well watered).

Hopefully someone can shed light on this.

On May 4, 10:36 pm, Sat wrote:
On Apr 6, 6:08 pm, researcher wrote:

My sweet peas grew very well and flowered well but some started dying
out too soon. I have grown sweet peas for years but this is the first
time this is occurring. I am located along the coast in So. CA.

I'm running into the same problems in the same general area (SoCal
coast). I tried growing them last summer and they died but that was
because I had to go out of town for a few days and didn't water them.
I planted my current batch in early March when temperatures were in
the 60's and they grew very well and bloomed but are now almost
completely dead (despite keeping them well watered).

Hopefully someone can shed light on this.

When I lived in Long Beach, my grandmother always planted sweet peas.
She planted them in October, and by December, she always had many,
many flowers, So she boxed them up and sent them by air mail ( a long
time ago) to her relatives in Nebraska who were astounded by that
strange place called Southern California where you had flowers for
Christmas.
Get "Early Flowering" types that will bloom in winter's short days.
Spring/summer flowering types will not bloom until daylight is 15
hours or more, and by then it is too hot. Some "Spring Flowering"
types may work also. Forget the Summer bloomers.
Do as Andrew suggested and keep them deadheaded or they
will stop blooming.
good luck next fall
Emilie
NorCal