Sweet peas or sweet-smelling peas as say the British
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- Subject: Sweet peas or sweet-smelling peas as say the British
- From: C* W*
- Date: Sun, 20 Aug 0 23:49:46 PDT
- References: Conversation <200008220401.e7M411D16250@lorien.mallorn.com> with last message <200008220401.e7M411D16250@lorien.mallorn.com>
Hello you Perennial People:
I have grown sweet peas in El Paso for at least ten years. Plant them in
mid-September, keep them moist and generously fertilized and get tons of
blossoms in late Feb through Apr. Yes, they go to seed when the weather
starts to get really warm.
They love the cooler weather. I have even seen them with ice on the leaves
in Jan. No problem. I started with "Royal Family" and have been saving
seed each year.
As a boy in Denver, Colorado we had Spencer's on an ugly wire fence we
wanted to hide and planted on St. Patrick's day, March 17. Maybe that
would work in Illinois?
Regards, Clark
Clark Weston
USDA Zone 8 El Paso, Texas
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> Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2000 14:08:43 -0500
> From: Susan Campanini <campanin@ntx1.cso.uiuc.edu>
> Subject: sweetpeas
>
> I think that Bob is right about why the annual European sweetpeas
> (lathyrus) aren't so popular in the US--the hot muggy summers. A few
> summers ago, I tried three varieties of the fragrant annual climbing
> sweetpeas from centuries back in Sicily, figuring they could take more
heat
> than the English garden hybrids. I did get a few blooms (wonderfully
> fragrant) but, alas, Sicily has heat but not Midwestern US humidity... so
> they didn't last long at all.
>
> Susan and David in Urbana, Illinois, zone 5b
>
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