I was thinking of planting some sweet peas in pots beside a SE wall of
my house and training them up the wall on some sort of wire/string
arrangement. The color and aroma people talk about seem heavenly. Since
I have no idea what I'm doing, I was hoping for a few hints? Size of
pots? Number of plants per pot? Best way to train them up the wall?
What to fill the pots with?

Since the patio comes all the way up to the house, I'm looking for some
way to brighten things up a bit without taking a sledge hammer to the
cement to get to the soil.

TIA,
Rob

Rob Barrett wrote:
I was thinking of planting some sweet peas in pots beside a SE wall of
my house and training them up the wall on some sort of wire/string
arrangement. The color and aroma people talk about seem heavenly. Since
I have no idea what I'm doing, I was hoping for a few hints? Size of
pots? Number of plants per pot? Best way to train them up the wall?
What to fill the pots with?

Since the patio comes all the way up to the house, I'm looking for some
way to brighten things up a bit without taking a sledge hammer to the
cement to get to the soil.

TIA,
Rob

Just a suggestion I used in my herb bed last year, and which could
easily be replicated in a large pot.
A wigwam of bamboo canes, say 5 to 6 canes per pot, with 2 to 3 plants
at the foot of each cane. The sweet pea is like the ordinary pea: it
climbs by winding tendrils up what support you give it, and this
certaintly worked well for me last year.
However, you need to water and feed your pots regularly on the patio -
even when it rains!

Cat(h)