Sweet Peas are enduringly popular cottage garden flowers and will reward you with gorgeous blooms and beautiful scent.  These flowers are easy to grow and great as cut flowers – in fact the more you pick the more they grow!

Grow Your Own Sweet Peas – a Perfect Project for Young Gardeners!

• Fill the pot with seed compost almost to the top. Make a hole with your finger and place six seeds in each pot.
• Cover the seeds with 1cm of compost.
• Water the seeds in (give them a drink of water) and cover them with the polythene bag.  After they have germinated, remove the covering.
• Plant the seedlings out in a sunny spot in the garden after the last spring frosts about 20-30 cm apart. Remember that slugs like to eat sweet peas!
• As they grow, support the plants using garden canes, a trellis or obelisk.

Don’t have time to grow your own?  We have a fabulous range of Cottage Garden plants at Burleydam Garden Centre.  Ask our Outdoor Plant team for help.