We are in love with sweet peas.\u00a0 They’re the most delicate, fragrant flower around with the most beautiful vine and tendrils.\u00a0 The smell is divine.\u00a0 Sweet Peas have risen in popularity over the past few years, but I don’t know many who grow them in the south (Zone 8A).\u00a0 We have cracked the code on what works well for growing sweet peas in our zone and would love to share that with you!<\/p>\n
Because they bloom in spring and go dormant in heat, planting Sweet Peas in the south requires an earlier plant time.\u00a0 I would consider Sweet Peas to be a ‘cool flower’.\u00a0 Plant in the fall for an early spring harvest.\u00a0 For more information about cool flowers, read Lisa Mason Ziegler’s\u00a0Cool Flowers.<\/em><\/p>\n There are many suppliers to order seed from, but Floret and Johnny’s are some of the best.\u00a0 There are so many unique colors to grow.\u00a0 We plant right after our first frost in October\/November at about 6 inches apart.\u00a0 Sweet Peas also require a trellis.\u00a0 Hortonova Netting attached to t-posts works well, but we recently switched to a metal panel in order to reuse it year after year.\u00a0 We also pinch back our sweet peas to encourage branching.<\/p>\n Once your flowers begin to bloom, pick them continuously.\u00a0 If blooms are left on the plant, they will begin to set seed.\u00a0 We’ve found that our stems have a vase life of 3-6 days and they make a fragrant addition to any bouquet.\u00a0 When the season begins to turn hot, the vine will begin to die back and it will begin to set seeds.\u00a0 These pods can be harvested, dried, and saved for seed for next year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" We are in love with sweet peas.\u00a0 They’re the most delicate, fragrant flower around with the most beautiful vine and tendrils.\u00a0 The smell is divine.\u00a0 Sweet Peas have risen in popularity over the past few years, but I don’t know many who grow them in the south (Zone 8A).\u00a0 We have cracked the code on […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":191,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[38,34,37],"class_list":["post-183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-flowers","tag-cool-flowers","tag-flowers","tag-seeds"],"yoast_head":"\n