Some Sweet Pea Tips from Easton

• Ursula’s recommends growing sweetpeas up a circle of pig netting rather than a wigwam which narrows at the top and restricts flowering – unless you have the time and space to grow them as cordons
• She has found that planting a rye grass green manure in ground where sweet peas will grow the following year produces stronger plants that flower for longer
• Don’t use bamboo canes – the plants find it too slippery to cling to and need more tying in
• I asked one of her team about a problem I have had with my own sweetpeas failing to form flowers properly at the end of the stem I was told that this was caused by temperature fluctuations early in the season. Apparently I have done the right thing by removing these stems to encourage the formation of new flowers
• Pick, pick, pick to keep your plants as productive as possible for as long as possible

Look carefully and you will spot the pig netting

This is my new favourite variety – Juliet – subtle colours and deliciously fragrant