Made me smile, because it brought back a memory from years ago, I purchased a couple of packets from the local hardware shop with my pocket money thinking I could plant them in the garden and have garden peas!...My father watched me put up a trellis and plant the seeds before informing me they where flowers....we did get a good display though :)
Thank you. This is by far the clearest video I've watched about pinching out sweet peas, being able to actually see what different it makes was really helpful.
Thanks for watching Katherine! I am so pleased it was helpful. Hopefully when the cold snap passes I will get on to doing a video about planting out the sweet peas to show you that bit.
Again a very simple video packed with great advice. I have just found your channel. I’ve been growing flowers for 30 years, but I have realised there are so many simple things I don’t do. As it is just coming to the end of May and so right in the spring planting period. Your channel is giving me huge enjoyment as I watch your videos on the train into London every morning. The only problem being I can’t wait to get home now and pinch out those sweat peas!
Hello and I am so glad you are enjoying my videos on the morning commute. I hope you got the sweet peas pinched out when you got home! We are enjoying some unusual fantastic sunshine in Scotland this week so I hope you are getting it down near London too. Lots of watering to do alongside all the planting out.
Thank you, so timely I watched your video! This is the first time I’ve started growing sweet peas. You’ve answered two of my questions, when to pinch the top of the plant and what I should use for mini supports. I just happen to have a whole bunch of barbeque skewers that I have not used for over eight years! Happy Easter ! 🐣🇨🇦
Happy Easter! I'm so glad you enjoyed the video and good luck growing your sweet peas. There are so many things we can use about the house to help with gardening. I remember running out of pea sticks from the garden centre and thinking what else do I have and barbecue skewers do the job perfectly!
Hello Catherine, what a lovely video. Last year my sweet peas were spindly leggy excuses. This year I took scissors to them they are brushing out now. However after watching your video and subscribing I'm going for show winners next year. 😂 thanks again.
Hi, thanks so much for watching! I am glad you enjoyed it. That’s great your sweet peas are bushing out after a chop with the scissors. It always seems such a funny thing to do taking off top growth on a plant but it really does work! Pinching out works on cosmos, dahlias and zinnias too!
Hello Belle, thank you so much for the feedback. I am glad you are enjoying the videos. Can I ask is it just the older videos from a year ago that are difficult to hear or are the newer ones such as this weeks direct sowing one the same? It would be great to know as I worked on the sound a bit more recently but don’t know if it has made a difference? Many thanks Catherine
Excellent!! I've been growing sweet peas for a few years now, and have heard about pinching them, but didn't know how to do it...;-) Since two years ago, I discovered a perennial one in the garden centre, and was delighted at not having to seed them every year. I set up a permanent trellis for it, and just cut it back to the ground when it's finished flowering and the leaves start turning. Sorry this is a bit long. Can I now pinch the tops off it, even though it's already grown to about five feet? No flowers yet, though. I'm so glad to have found you here on YT, and thank you for your much needed and clear advice. Stay well...;-)
Hello and thanks so much for watching! The perennial sweet peas are great aren't they. I have a couple in the garden that I have to admit I do very little with apart from cut the old flowering stems back, but they come back every year surprising me. Next year when you plant new annual seeds it would definitely help your plants get bushier and produce more flowers to pinch out but I think if they have already got to about 5ft this year its probably a bit late for them this time round. Hopefully you will get some flowers soon with such good growth this early in the season.
@@cloudberryflowers-flowerfarm Many thanks for getting back to me so quickly. It's actually the perennial one which has grown to nearly five feet, as I didn't get time to plant any annuals this year. It's a wonderful plant to have and, once the shoots start to show, it grows very quickly. I keep it well watered nearly every day when there's no rain. Thanks again, and I'll definitely be pinching it next year...;-)
Sorry my mistake I misread which variety you were asking about pinching out. With the perennial ones you wouldn’t need to pinch them out unless it had grown so tall it was getting unruly and you wanted to prune it back to keep its shape and not let it interfere with other nearby plants. Pruning the tops off it would effectively do the same as pinching, keeping it bushier lower down with more flowers.
@@cloudberryflowers-flowerfarm Goodness me, there's no need to apologise, as I maybe didn't make myself clear. The perennial one does grow much taller than my 5ft trellis, so I keep fanning it out whilst it's growing. However, my main interest in pinching it is not only to keep it under control, but mainly because I'd love to encourage a lot more flowering on it. Sorry if I'm being a nuisance, and I don't expect you to keep getting back to me, but I love the sweet pea and am very keen on creating as many flowers as possible. Again, thank you for your kind and helpful responses to a 70 year old Irishwoman who took up gardening after retirement, and now lives in Yorkshire...;-)
It's no bother at all getting back to you. Its one of the things I love from doing my videos, speaking to people about their gardens and seeing if I can help at all. Pinching out your perennial one is going to definitely promote more flowers so hopefully this year you will get lots of lovely ones to enjoy. Enjoy your summer in the garden.
Very informative video - thank you! Quick question, my sweet peas have plenty of shoots coming off the stems. Do I still need to pinch them out? Thanks. Ali
Thanks for watching and I am glad you enjoyed the video. I would definitely still pinch your sweet peas if they are tall with several sets of true leaves on them as it will make for a sturdier plant and encourage energy to be directed to those side shoots coming on your plants.
Thank you for sharing a clear, informative video. But I noticed the ties were a little tight. I have the understanding that you should do a FIGURE OF 8 when trying to stick - to give plant room to grow.
Hi Julia, thanks for watching my sweet pea video. I normally tie them with twine with enough room round the stems for the stage of growth they are at. Once they get planted out they are tied in again more loosely to accommodate the stems as they grow at that stage and I keep an eye on them and adjust as I need to. That’s interesting though as I have not heard of the figure of 8 for plant ties. I will look it up x
Thanks for your reply Was just wondering I know it's off the topic but I was wondering if you knew much on magnolia and I wanted to regrow the one my mother has in her yard from a single pranch can I store it in water to rent root
First time for me & sweet peas & I'm in Bavaria in Germany, my great friend Mary Clear (Incredible Edible) sent 42 seeds to me and I have 34 seedlings, I sowed them on the 25th March 2024. Do they need feeding? Just wondering as yours have more vitality than my small leaved ones, will appreciate any advice, Thank you, Pete Kilkenny 🙂
Hello, thanks so much for watching from Germany and that’s great you have some good seedlings on the go. I don’t usually feed my sweet pea seedlings until they are planted out in the flower patch. Then I give them tomato feed every couple of weeks. I think they grow quite robust as I grow them on quite cool here as soon as they have germinated and between that and pinching out they become quite strong young plants.
Thank you for answering, still my sweet peas appear to have stopped doing anything :-) the leaves are less than the size of a fingernail & have not changed in the last couple of weeks, I pinched them on the 19th April
Thanks for watching. Those are great questions. Pinching them out once will be fine to create enough of a bushy plant with more side shoots. You are reducing the height of the plant temporarily but it soon catches up and will be just as tall in the end as if you didn’t pinch them. By pinching a plant you delay flowering by a couple of weeks while it catches up on growth again but you get more flowers in the long run.
I really enjoy your videos, they are very informative! :) Quick question, I recently got my hands on some perennial latifolius seedlings. They have some side shoots but I wonder if I should pinch those too? Particularly since the fence I'm hoping them to climb on is much wider than it is tall and maybe more side shoots will help covering it better?
Thank you so much, I am so glad you are enjoying them. I think that doing that will help you to create a more bushier perennial sweet pea with more flowers. You could either prune the tops off all the sweet peas to a more manageable length to stop it getting too tall and promote them bushing out or just choose the individual stems you want to pinch. Perennial sweet peas are the same as annual ones too, the more you dehead the spent flowers the more blooms you will get.
Hi, thanks for watching. Yes, absolutely you could pinch them twice at this stage. That should help get you a bushier plant if they were starting to get leggy again.
Thanks for watching and absolutely you can definitely use scissors instead of your fingers for pinching. I hope you get lots of bushy sweet pea plants from having a go at this.
😂 oh no! First time pinching out great, next pinching out and standing on them not quite so helpful!! Our dog is a great digger and likes to walk all over the flower beds. She hasn’t quite sussed out stick to walking on the paths yet!
Thanks for watching. I am sorry that it wasn’t so easy to hear. I am not sure why that would be but I will look into it. I have lots to learn when it comes to technology!
Made me smile, because it brought back a memory from years ago, I purchased a couple of packets from the local hardware shop with my pocket money thinking I could plant them in the garden and have garden peas!...My father watched me put up a trellis and plant the seeds before informing me they where flowers....we did get a good display though :)
That’s a good memory to have 😊 Thanks for watching my sweet pea video.
Thank you. This is by far the clearest video I've watched about pinching out sweet peas, being able to actually see what different it makes was really helpful.
Thanks for watching Katherine! I am so pleased it was helpful. Hopefully when the cold snap passes I will get on to doing a video about planting out the sweet peas to show you that bit.
Again a very simple video packed with great advice. I have just found your channel. I’ve been growing flowers for 30 years, but I have realised there are so many simple things I don’t do. As it is just coming to the end of May and so right in the spring planting period. Your channel is giving me huge enjoyment as I watch your videos on the train into London every morning. The only problem being I can’t wait to get home now and pinch out those sweat peas!
Hello and I am so glad you are enjoying my videos on the morning commute. I hope you got the sweet peas pinched out when you got home! We are enjoying some unusual fantastic sunshine in Scotland this week so I hope you are getting it down near London too. Lots of watering to do alongside all the planting out.
Thank you, so timely I watched your video! This is the first time I’ve started growing sweet peas. You’ve answered two of my questions, when to pinch the top of the plant and what I should use for mini supports. I just happen to have a whole bunch of barbeque skewers that I have not used for over eight years! Happy Easter ! 🐣🇨🇦
Happy Easter! I'm so glad you enjoyed the video and good luck growing your sweet peas. There are so many things we can use about the house to help with gardening. I remember running out of pea sticks from the garden centre and thinking what else do I have and barbecue skewers do the job perfectly!
Thank you for the side by side before and after, really helped me translate this to my own sweetpea seedlings.
Thanks for watching, I’m glad it was helpful. Enjoy growing your sweet peas this year.
Hello Catherine, what a lovely video. Last year my sweet peas were spindly leggy excuses. This year I took scissors to them they are brushing out now.
However after watching your video and subscribing I'm going for show winners next year. 😂 thanks again.
Hi, thanks so much for watching! I am glad you enjoyed it. That’s great your sweet peas are bushing out after a chop with the scissors. It always seems such a funny thing to do taking off top growth on a plant but it really does work! Pinching out works on cosmos, dahlias and zinnias too!
Brilliant... Lovely presentation... Covered everything I needed to know. Thank you for this excellent video.
Hi, thanks so much for watching! I’m really glad it helped. Enjoy growing sweet peas this season.
Thank you, this is just what I needed to know right now 😊
Thanks so much for watching. I am glad it helped.
Very good video. Very helpful. Thank you.
Thank you Alan for watching, I am glad you found it helpful.
Really struggle to hear your videos but love to watch them
Hello Belle, thank you so much for the feedback. I am glad you are enjoying the videos. Can I ask is it just the older videos from a year ago that are difficult to hear or are the newer ones such as this weeks direct sowing one the same? It would be great to know as I worked on the sound a bit more recently but don’t know if it has made a difference? Many thanks Catherine
Fab just what I needed to know ! Thank you
Thanks so much for watching. Hope you get lots of lovely sweet peas this year.
Thanks really helpful
Thanks Amanda, I am glad you enjoyed watching x
Excellent!! I've been growing sweet peas for a few years now, and have heard about pinching them, but didn't know how to do it...;-)
Since two years ago, I discovered a perennial one in the garden centre, and was delighted at not having to seed them every year.
I set up a permanent trellis for it, and just cut it back to the ground when it's finished flowering and the leaves start turning.
Sorry this is a bit long. Can I now pinch the tops off it, even though it's already grown to about five feet? No flowers yet, though.
I'm so glad to have found you here on YT, and thank you for your much needed and clear advice. Stay well...;-)
Hello and thanks so much for watching! The perennial sweet peas are great aren't they. I have a couple in the garden that I have to admit I do very little with apart from cut the old flowering stems back, but they come back every year surprising me. Next year when you plant new annual seeds it would definitely help your plants get bushier and produce more flowers to pinch out but I think if they have already got to about 5ft this year its probably a bit late for them this time round. Hopefully you will get some flowers soon with such good growth this early in the season.
@@cloudberryflowers-flowerfarm
Many thanks for getting back to me so quickly.
It's actually the perennial one which has grown to nearly five feet, as I didn't get time to plant any annuals this year.
It's a wonderful plant to have and, once the shoots start to show, it grows very quickly. I keep it well watered nearly every day when there's no rain.
Thanks again, and I'll definitely be pinching it next year...;-)
Sorry my mistake I misread which variety you were asking about pinching out. With the perennial ones you wouldn’t need to pinch them out unless it had grown so tall it was getting unruly and you wanted to prune it back to keep its shape and not let it interfere with other nearby plants. Pruning the tops off it would effectively do the same as pinching, keeping it bushier lower down with more flowers.
@@cloudberryflowers-flowerfarm
Goodness me, there's no need to apologise, as I maybe didn't make myself clear.
The perennial one does grow much taller than my 5ft trellis, so I keep fanning it out whilst it's growing.
However, my main interest in pinching it is not only to keep it under control, but mainly because I'd love to encourage a lot more flowering on it.
Sorry if I'm being a nuisance, and I don't expect you to keep getting back to me, but I love the sweet pea and am very keen on creating as many flowers as possible.
Again, thank you for your kind and helpful responses to a 70 year old Irishwoman who took up gardening after retirement, and now lives in Yorkshire...;-)
It's no bother at all getting back to you. Its one of the things I love from doing my videos, speaking to people about their gardens and seeing if I can help at all. Pinching out your perennial one is going to definitely promote more flowers so hopefully this year you will get lots of lovely ones to enjoy. Enjoy your summer in the garden.
Very informative video - thank you! Quick question, my sweet peas have plenty of shoots coming off the stems. Do I still need to pinch them out? Thanks. Ali
Thanks for watching and I am glad you enjoyed the video. I would definitely still pinch your sweet peas if they are tall with several sets of true leaves on them as it will make for a sturdier plant and encourage energy to be directed to those side shoots coming on your plants.
Thank you for sharing a clear, informative video. But I noticed the ties were a little tight. I have the understanding that you should do a FIGURE OF 8
when trying to stick - to give plant room to grow.
Hi Julia, thanks for watching my sweet pea video. I normally tie them with twine with enough room round the stems for the stage of growth they are at. Once they get planted out they are tied in again more loosely to accommodate the stems as they grow at that stage and I keep an eye on them and adjust as I need to. That’s interesting though as I have not heard of the figure of 8 for plant ties. I will look it up x
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Are the shoots you pinch out eatable
And thank you for your video I love
Sweet peas can't wait to mine start to flower 🥀
Thanks for watching! Good luck with your sweet peas flowering. The sweet peas and their shoots though are definitely not edible.
Thanks for your reply
Was just wondering I know it's off the topic but I was wondering if you knew much on magnolia and I wanted to regrow the one my mother has in her yard from a single pranch can I store it in water to rent root
Love from Kathmandu
Thanks for watching 😊
With the sweet peas where do you get sticks every I interesting good idea Judy
Hello, they are just barbecue skewers from the supermarket, but they work well as small stakes for sweet peas.
First time for me & sweet peas & I'm in Bavaria in Germany, my great friend Mary Clear (Incredible Edible) sent 42 seeds to me and I have 34 seedlings, I sowed them on the 25th March 2024. Do they need feeding? Just wondering as yours have more vitality than my small leaved ones, will appreciate any advice, Thank you, Pete Kilkenny 🙂
Hello, thanks so much for watching from Germany and that’s great you have some good seedlings on the go. I don’t usually feed my sweet pea seedlings until they are planted out in the flower patch. Then I give them tomato feed every couple of weeks. I think they grow quite robust as I grow them on quite cool here as soon as they have germinated and between that and pinching out they become quite strong young plants.
Thank you for answering, still my sweet peas appear to have stopped doing anything :-) the leaves are less than the size of a fingernail & have not changed in the last couple of weeks, I pinched them on the 19th April
Thank you very much.
Thank you so much for watching 😊
Thank you.
Thanks so much for watching.
Do you throw the top pieces away or will they root like a tomato plant? Also, when the side shoots grow, will you pinch them off as well?
Thanks for watching 😊 I have got lots of new sweet pea plants from rooting the pinched out sections! It’s a great way of making extra plants.
Hi. A couple of things i don't understand....do i have to keep picking off every few weeks/months? By pinching them off, will they not grow as tall?
Thanks for watching. Those are great questions. Pinching them out once will be fine to create enough of a bushy plant with more side shoots. You are reducing the height of the plant temporarily but it soon catches up and will be just as tall in the end as if you didn’t pinch them. By pinching a plant you delay flowering by a couple of weeks while it catches up on growth again but you get more flowers in the long run.
I really enjoy your videos, they are very informative! :) Quick question, I recently got my hands on some perennial latifolius seedlings. They have some side shoots but I wonder if I should pinch those too? Particularly since the fence I'm hoping them to climb on is much wider than it is tall and maybe more side shoots will help covering it better?
Thank you so much, I am so glad you are enjoying them. I think that doing that will help you to create a more bushier perennial sweet pea with more flowers. You could either prune the tops off all the sweet peas to a more manageable length to stop it getting too tall and promote them bushing out or just choose the individual stems you want to pinch. Perennial sweet peas are the same as annual ones too, the more you dehead the spent flowers the more blooms you will get.
@@cloudberryflowers-flowerfarm Thank you for replying, I'll be sure to follow your advice! =)
I started alittle early, can i pinch mine twice? thank you!
Hi, thanks for watching. Yes, absolutely you could pinch them twice at this stage. That should help get you a bushier plant if they were starting to get leggy again.
@@cloudberryflowers-flowerfarm thank you!
Great video. How did you tie your netting? It looks fab!
Thank you 😊 the biodegradable netting is just tied with bits of twine at intervals to the crossbar going across the greenhouse.
Thanks so much very informative that , could I just cat with scissors instead of pinching ?
Thanks for watching and absolutely you can definitely use scissors instead of your fingers for pinching. I hope you get lots of bushy sweet pea plants from having a go at this.
⬅️ This cat keeps pinching out my sweet peas and standing on my seedlings😅 I need a better plan next year!
😂 oh no! First time pinching out great, next pinching out and standing on them not quite so helpful!! Our dog is a great digger and likes to walk all over the flower beds. She hasn’t quite sussed out stick to walking on the paths yet!
hard to hear you but, seems very informative.
Thanks for watching. I am sorry that it wasn’t so easy to hear. I am not sure why that would be but I will look into it. I have lots to learn when it comes to technology!