How to Grow Flowering Sweet Peas

The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers

Epic Gardening

Home & Garden, Education, Leisure, How To

4.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 29 September 2023

⏱️ 10 minutes

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The soft, supple petals of sweet peas are perfect in flower arrangements, and Rachel knows just how to grow them. Here she outlines tips and tricks related to cultivating these lovely flowers. Included is everything from day length to growing maintenance. Epic Gardening Shop Homepage: https://growepic.co/48xUfkv Botanical Interests Shop Homepage: https://growepic.co/3rulM5Q Book Collection Page: https://growepic.co/46qRBLK EG Homesteading Book: https://growepic.co/3rvKaUH Learn More: 21 Flowers For The Perfect Fall Cut Flower Garden When To Plant Dahlias: The Best Time Of Year Connect With Rachel Nafis: Rachel Nafis is an urban flower farmer based in San Diego, California. Her urban farm, established in 2019, is composed of 8 different cutting gardens in her neighborhood, where she grows for a 30-member bouquet subscription, flower shops, and event florists. Instagram Website Shop the Store As an exclusive for listeners, use code THEBEET for 5% off your entire order on our store, featuring our flagship Birdies Raised Beds. These are the original metal raised beds, lasting up to 5-10x longer than wooden beds, are ethically made in Australia, and have a customizable modular design. Shop now and get 5% off your first order. Get Our Books Looking for a beginner's guide to growing food in small spaces? Kevin’s book, Field Guide to Urban Gardening, explains the core, essential information that you'll need to grow plants, no matter where you live! He also wrote Grow Bag Gardening to provide you with specialized knowledge that can bring you success when growing in fabric pots. Preorder Kevin’s newest book Epic Homesteading if you are looking to turn your home into a thriving homestead! Order signed copies of Kevin’s books, plus more of his favorite titles in our store. More Resources Looking for more information? Follow us: Our Blog YouTube (Including our Epic Homesteading and Jacques in the Garden channels) Instagram (Including Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	I will confess that the first time I really ever heard of this plant, I thought it was
0:07.4	just a sweet version of a plant that I grow in my edible garden, which would be peas,
0:12.2	sweet peas though, really not edible.
0:15.0	You should not eat them, but they're quite beautiful and also quite fragrant.
0:18.3	Probably one of my favorite smells to have in the garden.
0:22.0	So we have Rachel and David's back in the show, Urban flower farmer based in San Diego
0:25.9	here.
0:27.4	How do sweet peas work for you in the cut flower garden?
0:31.3	I've noticed that the vase life is, I guess, kind of low, but maybe I don't know what I'm
0:36.0	doing.
0:37.0	Yeah.
0:38.0	Well, for me, sweet peas are, and we talked about dollas earlier this week, sweet peas
0:43.5	are the ideal candidate for a garden because they're very productive.
0:48.7	They can be vertically trained so they can grow them in very small spaces.
0:54.4	And then they're hard to come by.
0:56.4	It's hard to find a garden grown sweet pea anywhere because they're very fragile.
1:02.2	They don't have a very long vase life, which means they're the perfect candidate to
1:08.2	enjoy in your garden.
1:10.1	And they're truly one of the best fragrances out there.
1:15.2	Yeah.
1:16.2	Yeah, it's hard to describe the smell, but it should be, and probably has been bottled
1:21.2	up into a perfume of some kind because it's just so nice.
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