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So the first thing I'm going to do is show you how to pick sweet peas towards the end of the season. So couldn't you see this one,

which is called Erawan, which I absolutely love, this sort of lovely mix of mauve, a sort of pale move

and a deeper mauve. And sometimes I leave the pods on because I

quite like that look. But actually with this stem, I'm going to remove them. And what I want you to

be aware of is normally you would just pick that stem as an individual sweet pea stem. But I'm not

doing that, as you can see. I've actually picked the top

of a vine, so the top sort of fifth off the errone vine. And what I find is it's really

brilliant towards the end of the season because those stems are a bit short and you're a bit

restricted into how you can use sweet peas if you just

pick that. I mean, basically, it's a little jam jar, isn't it? Whereas if you pick the whole vine,

well, no, the top fifth of a vine, what you get is this stem length, but also your dead heading,

as I just showed you, cutting these off, as well as live heading. And actually, the plants below benefit from this being taken off,

and they then go on to flower for about a month longer.

So I do this a lot towards the end of the season.

And I love these stripy jugs.

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