sweet peas
Advice, please! I am about to buy sweet pea plants. There seem to be about
five little plants in each pot. Should I plant the whole contents of each pot "as is", or separate out the five little plants and put them in individually? I have seen advice in Amateur Gardening to separate them, but some seed packets advise treating each pot of seedlings as a unit. What works best? Alan Jones |
sweet peas
Alan Jones wrote:
: Advice, please! I am about to buy sweet pea plants. There seem to be : about five little plants in each pot. Should I plant the whole : contents of each pot "as is", or separate out the five little plants : and put them in individually? I have seen advice in Amateur Gardening : to separate them, but some seed packets advise treating each pot of : seedlings as a unit. What works best? : : Alan Jones I sow mine, 3 to a 6" pot and plant it as it is but they take just as well if you divide them carefully and water in well, as a friend did at the allotments last year |
sweet peas
On 29/3/07 17:47, in article ,
"Alan Jones" wrote: Advice, please! I am about to buy sweet pea plants. There seem to be about five little plants in each pot. Should I plant the whole contents of each pot "as is", or separate out the five little plants and put them in individually? I have seen advice in Amateur Gardening to separate them, but some seed packets advise treating each pot of seedlings as a unit. What works best? We sell ours about 10 plants to a pot (a 'long tom') and suggest planting them as a unit. Perhaps you could put them in the middle of a wigwam of canes or, even better, pea sticks and let them find their way up with just a little help from you. If you try to separate them, you might damage the roots which will be quite entangled. -- Sacha http://www.hillhousenursery.co.uk South Devon http://www.discoverdartmoor.co.uk/ (remove weeds from address) |
sweet peas
On 29 Mar, 17:47, "Alan Jones" wrote:
Advice, please! I am about to buy sweet pea plants. There seem to be about five little plants in each pot. Should I plant the whole contents of each pot "as is", or separate out the five little plants and put them in individually? I have seen advice in Amateur Gardening to separate them, but some seed packets advise treating each pot of seedlings as a unit. What works best? I do 6/8 per pot, 3 pots and do 15 individual in carboard loo rolls. That way I have 3 wigwam (2 lotty and 1 home), 3 centre piece and 5 individuals for the poles. Also I do more individuals in loo rolls because my youngest likes doing them and we offer them to friends or we do a bit of 'guerilla gardening' and dot them about in the streets. I do sun flowers in them too and leeks because they get a good root lenghth and I can just push them out of the bog roll without too much disturbances. But most of all I recycle :o) |
sweet peas
Sacha wrote:
On 29/3/07 17:47, in article , "Alan Jones" wrote: Advice, please! I am about to buy sweet pea plants. There seem to be about five little plants in each pot. Should I plant the whole contents of each pot "as is", or separate out the five little plants and put them in individually? I have seen advice in Amateur Gardening to separate them, but some seed packets advise treating each pot of seedlings as a unit. What works best? We sell ours about 10 plants to a pot (a 'long tom') and suggest planting them as a unit. Perhaps you could put them in the middle of a wigwam of canes or, even better, pea sticks and let them find their way up with just a little help from you. If you try to separate them, you might damage the roots which will be quite entangled. Many thanks to you and the other members who replied. I will put each potful of seedlings in as a clump. Alan Jones |
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