Growing Sweet Peas In A Home Greenhouse
When growing Sweet peas in a home greenhouse vertical strings are spaced about 4 inches apart. They are tied with a slip knot to the top wire, given one turn around the 16-inch and 10-inch wires, drawn fairly tight and tied with a slip knot to the bottom wire. It is best to tie a few strings near the center first and work toward the ends. This will tend to keep all the strings fairly tight, but it may be found necessary to go back and tighten some of them.
Between crops the three lower wires and their turnbuckles are unfastened at one end, neatly coiled and tied to the vertical support at the other end. The strings which generally last two seasons are separated into about four groups after being unfastened from the three lower wires and the lower half of each -group is gathered together, tied in a loose knot and allowed to hang from the top wire until wanted again.
Most seed catalogues list a class of sweet pea referred to as Early Flowering, and the description generally states that these varieties “are valuable for winter flowering under glass” or that they are “popular as home greenhouse subjects,” to quote two.
It is this class which I grow in my greenhouse, and the following six are the varieties I have used of late : Joseph, salmon pink; Red Man; crimson; Christmas Triumph, pink and white; Kate Smith, scarlet; White Giant, white; Tahoe, blue.
Seed is sown about September 25. I believing in common with many other gardeners that Spergon is a very valuable agent with which to dust edible peas, determined to try it on sweet peas. I have done so for the last two seasons and am convinced that it is well worth while in assisting germination.
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