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sweet peas
This year I have grown my peas in compost individually in the cardboard
cores of toilet rolls, a tip from a TV programme. They are now being climatised but have lost their healthy green colour turning very pale. Help please as it is now time for planting out. Thanks Bill |
"Bill Falconer" wrote in message ... This year I have grown my peas in compost individually in the cardboard cores of toilet rolls, a tip from a TV programme. They are now being climatised but have lost their healthy green colour turning very pale. Help please as it is now time for planting out. Thanks Bill Peas - sweet or edible do not benefit from being transplanted, potted on, etc. They will thrive if planted in their final positions at the outset - assuming the conditions are right. Toilet roll cores - useful on the compost heap perhaps !! I would chuck the whole lot on the compost and start again. Pete www.thecanalshop.com |
Toilet roll cores - useful on the compost heap perhaps !! I would chuck the whole lot on the compost and start again. Pete www.thecanalshop.com you could throw the lot on the compost heap and they would probably grow like fun :-) |
"Bill Falconer" wrote in message ... : This year I have grown my peas in compost individually in the cardboard : cores of toilet rolls, a tip from a TV programme. They are now being : climatised but have lost their healthy green colour turning very pale. Help : please as it is now time for planting out. : : Thanks : Bill : The compost may have got dry and run out of fertiliser, plant them out and they should perk up. Peel a split off the roll to make sure they break out |
Bill Falconer wrote:
This year I have grown my peas in compost individually in the cardboard cores of toilet rolls, a tip from a TV programme. They are now being climatised but have lost their healthy green colour turning very pale. Help please as it is now time for planting out. A very traditional method of growing sweet peas. what they are telling you is that they have run out of grub and want planting. Give them a good soak in water and then plant out. I'd leave the ubes in place, but you could *carefully* slit them in a couple of places before planting to give the roots an easy way out. Water well and watch out for slugs & snails. Enjoy the flowers. HTH Sarah |
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Stockdale writes "Bill Falconer" wrote in message ... This year I have grown my peas in compost individually in the cardboard cores of toilet rolls, a tip from a TV programme. They are now being climatised but have lost their healthy green colour turning very pale. It's been a bit cold recently, and your peas have been used to the warm. They'll recover. But peas don't need to be grown indoors - they're quite hardy. Only reason for doing this would be if you were having slug trouble when they were little. The toilet roll core tip is usually meant for runner and french beans, which are not hardy. Help please as it is now time for planting out. In gardening, never pay attention to 'time to do this or that' if it is expressed as a time, eg 'mid June'. Time to do anything depends on the conditions in your own garden. 'After all danger of frost has passed' is June in my garden and probably January 1st in Dave Poole's! Peas - sweet or edible do not benefit from being transplanted, potted on, etc. They will thrive if planted in their final positions at the outset - assuming the conditions are right. Toilet roll cores - useful on the compost heap perhaps !! I would chuck the whole lot on the compost and start again. That's unnecessarily pessimistic! Weather seems to be set fairly warm for the next week - plant them out now, and they'll be fine. -- Kay "Do not insult the crocodile until you have crossed the river" |
I have had my sweet peas out since easter - they re in flower now and look
lovely! Scott - Gatwick "Sarah Dale" wrote in message ... Bill Falconer wrote: This year I have grown my peas in compost individually in the cardboard cores of toilet rolls, a tip from a TV programme. They are now being climatised but have lost their healthy green colour turning very pale. Help please as it is now time for planting out. A very traditional method of growing sweet peas. what they are telling you is that they have run out of grub and want planting. Give them a good soak in water and then plant out. I'd leave the ubes in place, but you could *carefully* slit them in a couple of places before planting to give the roots an easy way out. Water well and watch out for slugs & snails. Enjoy the flowers. HTH Sarah |
scott wrote:
I have had my sweet peas out since easter - they re in flower now and look lovely! Scott - Gatwick "Sarah Dale" wrote in message ... Bill Falconer wrote: This year I have grown my peas in compost individually in the cardboard cores of toilet rolls, a tip from a TV programme. They are now being climatised but have lost their healthy green colour turning very pale. Help please as it is now time for planting out. A very traditional method of growing sweet peas. what they are telling you is that they have run out of grub and want planting. Give them a good soak in water and then plant out. I'd leave the ubes in place, but you could *carefully* slit them in a couple of places before planting to give the roots an easy way out. Water well and watch out for slugs & snails. Enjoy the flowers. HTH Sarah Alas,cardboard is made from wood,which depletes the soil of nitrogen.I was similarly caught out last year using "peat" pots, only to learn later that they are now 80% wood chippings. |
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writes Alas,cardboard is made from wood,which depletes the soil of nitrogen.I was similarly caught out last year using "peat" pots, only to learn later that they are now 80% wood chippings. Not likely to trouble peas which are adapted to low nitrogen conditions by developing the ability to 'fix' free nitrogen -- Kay "Do not insult the crocodile until you have crossed the river" |
Peas - sweet or edible do not benefit from being transplanted, potted on, etc. They will thrive if planted in their final positions at the outset - assuming the conditions are right. Toilet roll cores - useful on the compost heap perhaps !! I would chuck the whole lot on the compost and start again. Pete www.thecanalshop.com What a load of codswallop! The top growers of sweetpeas in this country set the seeds in pots often in October, sometimes Jan/Feb depending on area. When transplanting from the pot you can check the root system for health etc. before committing to the ground which should have been prepared by Xmas time at latest. There is nothing wrong either in sowing seeds in situ in spring but you may not get 100%. Best advice I can offer is get hold of a copy 'Sweetpeas, the complete guide' by the acknowledged master on sweetpeas, the late Bernard R. Jones. Probably out of print now but try your local library or maybe Amazon. Follow the advice within and you will have the best sweetpeas in your neighbourhood. |
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writes Peas - sweet or edible do not benefit from being transplanted, potted on, etc. They will thrive if planted in their final positions at the outset - assuming the conditions are right. Toilet roll cores - useful on the compost heap perhaps !! I would chuck the whole lot on the compost and start again. Pete www.thecanalshop.com What a load of codswallop! The top growers of sweetpeas in this country set the seeds in pots often in October, sometimes Jan/Feb depending on area. When transplanting from the pot you can check the root system for health etc. before committing to the ground which should have been prepared by Xmas time at latest. There is nothing wrong either in sowing seeds in situ in spring but you may not get 100%. Best advice I can offer is get hold of a copy 'Sweetpeas, the complete guide' by the acknowledged master on sweetpeas, the late Bernard R. Jones. Probably out of print now but try your local library or maybe Amazon. Follow the advice within and you will have the best sweetpeas in your neighbourhood. I buy seed from matthewman as they stock the old fashioned heavily perfumed types. They have a really good little leaflet about growing them which comes with the order. Lovely little brown envelope seed packets too, printed by 'proper' printing judging by the indentations :) Worth investigating if you like scented sweet peas. Janet -- Janet Tweedy Dalmatian Telegraph http://www.lancedal.demon.co.uk |
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