Sweet Peas

For many years I have attempted to grow sweet peas. They are easy to grow in England, but have proven to be challenge for me in the USA. The basic problem is that they need cool, but not cold weather to grow and flower. Most of the areas that we have lived in had two minute springs where the temperature is cold and frosty one day, and then zips straight through the 60s, 70s and into the 80s in a matter of a week or two. Sweet peas need two months of steady mild temperatures. Places like Seattle are perhaps best for them, we haven't lived in Seattle though!

So being the optimist in Georgia, where fall planting is the in thing, I am trying sweet peas again. I found one packet that has little sweet peas and they grow in a pot. These might actually work for me. If they do, I will have sweet peas around Thanksgiving. I also put some taller ones in the vegetable bed with the beans, so at least they will be watered regularly.