Sweet pea growing guide 🌿 The best smelling flowers!

All about how to grow sweet peas, the flower that got me into growing from seed!

1:46 Where do sweet peas grow?
2:15 Zone specific information
3:32 How to start sweet pea seeds
5:48 How (and why) to pre-sprout
10:42 Planting out
14:59 Note on varieties

Varieties I'm growing this year:
Oban Bay
Windsor
Prince of Orange
Apricot Dream
Blue Vein
Cold Steel
Jilly
Orange Sunshine
Valerie Harrod
Mr. P
Erehwon
Turquoise
Turquoise Lagoon

My name is Erin and I love sharing inspiration and information with real-life gardeners. I live and garden in southeastern Wisconsin, zone 5.

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[vanessaeden]

If you don't have root trainers, sweet peas grow well in toilet roll tubes which you can plant straight out into the ground when they have reached a reasonable height as the roll will bio-degrade.

[bloomsbyamelie]

ERIN!!!! I have been gardening for over 25 years. I was fascinated by gardening at a young age. The first time I heard of Sweet Peas was watching Martha Stewart Living. Although they are so pretty in bouquets, they never appealed to me as a garden plant. Well today my friend you have convinced me to grow sweet peas. I want to introduce more things in my garden besides abundant flowering and beautiful foliage. The fact that these have a heavenly scent (I'm embarassed to say I have never smelled a real sweet pea)- I am sold. So I bought three packs of mixed sweet peas. Sugar and Spice (pinks); Little Sweetheart Mix (pastels) and Ocean Foam (purples). Some I did as a winter sowing method- the remainder I will start in trays. Thank you so much for this informative video! Now I need to figure out where to plant them in the garden!!!

[space_stac]

First year growing sweet pea...they are already sprouting. Yippee

[margaretkingi]

I'm in New Zealand and I'm going to have sweet peas growing in my garden, I had forgotten how beautiful they are in looks and smell. Thankyou

[Mortallifeonearth]

The perfect primer to growing sweet peas from seed! Thank you so much!

[joannevenere]

You just answered before I was done watching 😊

[karinchristensen]

I couldn't find trainers last year (and they are still sold out now) so I saved all of my paper towel rolls all winter (I use a lot of paper towels) and plan to bunch them up in a plastic pot. They are longer than toilet paper rolls so I hope they will work. Even if they disintegrate too soon the roots should hold together. I have never been able to get sweet peas to germinate in the ground so I gave up on them until I watched your videos. I think I'll also use the pre-sprouting method. I can't wait to see if they will grow. Thank you!

[little_miss_muffet]

Giving sweet peas a go for the first time this year! Have had great germination success and enjoying watching my little seedlings get bigger by the day. Can’t wait to plant them out next month and for the first flowers to appear :)

[annetterummel]

I'm growing sweet peas too. My Dad was magic with them...he didn't even try and they just bloomed and bloomed. Me not so much so this was very helpful! Thanks for sharing!

[karencameron]

Hi Erin - really enjoying your videos. I am blown away by the sweet pea varieties you have access to and can't wait to see the update once they're in bloom! We are seemingly quite limited here in Canada with varieties. :-)

[savitakirsh]

Hi Erin, this is a great video. The mammoth sweat pea seeds have grown into seedlings ( indoor ) since I live in zone 5b. I will be transplanting them after Spring equinox outdoor in a big container. I am excited to see and smell the results. Thanks

[hannahmiller]

Yay, this came in perfect time. Half of mine just germinated. This is the first time growing them so I'm looking forward to the scent😍 I am growing Mark Harrod from Floret Flower

[itsmewende]

I have an arbor I'll plant them under along with my Hyacinth beans. I saw on an episode of Gardeners World last yr. a little girl who grows Sweet Peas, her tip was to take off some of the tendrils to get more flowers. I wish I had moved that episode to my save list. They've started airing it on BritBox as well.

[astorybooklife]

Thank you for sharing all of this great info!

[BernardDauphinais]

I just picked up a packet of sweet pea seeds this afternoon. Tall Border Mixed Colors. I absolutely love the scent, but I've struggled to get them going in the past. Thanks for this video, very informative and helpful.

[michelebushnik]

As soon as you said rabbits love them I zoned out! I have a huge continuous rabbit problem, my property butts up to BLM land here in Reno Nevada! Thank you though, I've got too many pots as it is, just need more in ground plants.

[LittleGardenSK]

My absolute favorite flower. I"m in zone 3 Canada so they make a great summer annual - almost time to get some started!

[jenniferlacrosse]

This was WONDERFUL!!! Thank you so very much! Looking forward to growing & caring for mine as well as seeing more of your vidis! 💐💐💐

[julee]

Can wait to try these this year. They are new to me and so pretty.

[barbarafegley]

I used the root trainers for the first time this year. Tried 2 mixes from botanical interests called bouquet mix and perfume mix. They have a similar palette of colors. They were big enough to transplant outside against a trellis. 2 days ago. I hardened them off first. Looking good so far.