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Re: My first year Sweet Peas..

If you want your peas to keep flowering, cut off the pods.  This is
called "deadheading" in gardening land.  The whole intent of a plant is
to reproduce itself, and the seedpods are a means to that end. As far as
the plant is concerned, once it successfully produces seeds that ripen
and fall to the ground, its job is done.  So to keep it (or any annual)
flowering, cut off the seed pods, and it will keep blooming away in an
effort to get some ripe seeds out there in the world.

Aren't the blooms wonderfully fragrant?  Don't eat the pods.

Melissa

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