The First Sweet Pea

I know, it’s late for the first sweetpea flower isn’t it?  I imagine a lot are over and done with elsewhere - but here they’ve barely just begun. 

Regular readers will know I always sow my sweetpeas later than the conventional advice would usually suggest; I usually start sowing in February and sow a few more several times to keep them going through the season.  This year, dear reader, I did not sow any.  I know - it’s a shocking confession.  I even saved seeds from last year to sow and they remain saved.  Whether they remain viable is a totally different question.

Now you might be expecting an explanation of this dilatory behaviour.  I have no explanation other than work has been a bit all-consuming this year.  At the moment I should have been attending to lots of gardening stuff for the year ahead, nothing happened, not one seed was sown.  

Hang on a minute, though but, I hear you mutter.  Then explain how you have the sweetpea?  I was sent an offer for some cheap plugs that I could not refuse.  They were duly purchased as my one and only hope of sweetpeas this year.  It felt like a sweetpea redemption.

They didn’t like the dry weather a lot though I did try and keep them watered.  And now voila! They have started to flower, the sweetpea season has commenced.

I am hoping that one sweetpea leads to another …..

Take care and be kind.

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