Sweet Peas - Farm Mix
There’s nothing quite like the sweet scent of these flowers hanging in the air on a warm spring evening. They are a nostalgic cottage-garden favourite and are quite easy to grow, if you plant them at the right time of year.
Sweet Peas are a cool-season flower, meaning they prefer to start their growth in very early spring (think February/March). They start when it’s cool and bloom when it gets warm in May/June. If you keep harvesting them, they’ll keep blooming until the high heat of summer.
This is a pretty mix of all the colours we grow!
Seeds/Packet: 15
There’s nothing quite like the sweet scent of these flowers hanging in the air on a warm spring evening. They are a nostalgic cottage-garden favourite and are quite easy to grow, if you plant them at the right time of year.
Sweet Peas are a cool-season flower, meaning they prefer to start their growth in very early spring (think February/March). They start when it’s cool and bloom when it gets warm in May/June. If you keep harvesting them, they’ll keep blooming until the high heat of summer.
This is a pretty mix of all the colours we grow!
Seeds/Packet: 15
There’s nothing quite like the sweet scent of these flowers hanging in the air on a warm spring evening. They are a nostalgic cottage-garden favourite and are quite easy to grow, if you plant them at the right time of year.
Sweet Peas are a cool-season flower, meaning they prefer to start their growth in very early spring (think February/March). They start when it’s cool and bloom when it gets warm in May/June. If you keep harvesting them, they’ll keep blooming until the high heat of summer.
This is a pretty mix of all the colours we grow!
Seeds/Packet: 15
Sweet Pea Seed Starting Information:
Sweet Peas are a cool season flower, meaning they like a cool start. Start seeds in early Spring for flowers from June-September.
Harvest regularly to keep the blooms coming.
Starting Seeds Indoors:
Soak seeds in water overnight for sowing the next day.
Fill a seed tray (or your preferred container) with moistened organic seed-starting mix.
Sow 1/4” deep, 1-2 seeds/cell. Tip: Place the seed on top of the soil and poke it in with the eraser end of a pencil.
Sprinkle with a light cover of vermiculite to help retain moisture and cover the seed..
Cover with a humidity dome and place tray onto a heat mat,.
Keep your grow-room cool (10-14c) to mimic their preferred growing environment.
As soon as they sprout, take them off of the heat mat and move them under a grow light. You could also start them under a grow light with the heat mat and just turn off the mat when they sprout.
Keep your grow lights within 3” of the seedlings as they grow.
Bottom water as needed (let the soil dry a bit between waterings).
When they are 2-3” tall, harden them off by taking the seedlings outside gradually more time daily for 5-7 days.
Plant in a well-amended bed, 8-12” apart, along a trellis or wall for support.
Sweet Peas benefit from pinching of the central stem (leaving 3 leaf sets on the remaining stalk) when they are around 8” tall. This will tell the plant it needs to produce more stems, and you will enjoy twice as many flowers!
Tip: Install plant support when you start the seeds.
Starting Seeds Outdoors:
Prepare your growing space with a healthy dose of organic compost.
Rake the surface as smooth as possible.
Press a very shallow trench into the soil using the flat side of a rake or other tool.
Sprinkle seeds generously along the trench. *There is more risk of seeds being eaten or blown away etc. outside, so always sow more than you need and then thin (or transplant!) unwanted seedlings later.
Cover seeds with a thin layer of soil.
For added protection from pests, lay row cover or a milk just over your planting until they germinate.
Install plant support when you plant the seeds.
