Thanks so much for listening to Grow Cook Eat Arrange. I'm sitting in the kitchen at Perch Hill

and the garden's looking particularly lovely at the moment and so I just wanted to do a kind of

NB to anyone who's within shouting distance of Perch Hill or not quite shouting distance but travel

distance which is we're open for the next few months, a few days a

month. And yeah, it would be really lovely to see you. So go on our website and you'll find all the

details of booking there. You can book lunch on three different time slots or you can just come

and wander around the garden. So it's garden only or garden visit plus lunch.

So I hope to see some of you then.

Welcome to Grow Cook Eater Range, the podcast of me, Sarah Raven, and today, me, Sarah Raven,

because I'm going to do a solo on sweet peas. It's June and it is the peak of sweet pea

flowering time. So I just thought I would go through kind of the new things that I've learned

about sweet peas. I've done previous episodes on them

about sewing and growing and stuff and you can look back at them. So I'm going to try not

to repeat too much. But I have learnt a few things in the last couple of years and I just wanted

to talk about those. So the first thing is, I guess at this time of year, it's a bit late to make this decision.

But cordon growing is one of the things that it tends to be quite a binary thing.

It tends to be men quite like cordon growing and women like TP growing.

Maybe because, well, anyway, I'm not going to suppose anything, but you get

more flowers, just letting them romp over a teepee or an arch than you do with cordon training,

and you get shorter stems growing over a teepee rather than cordon training. Now, what's the difference physiologically?

Well, cordon training is just like if you happen to have grown tomatoes in the past.

What you're doing is you're pinching out all the side shoots that come in the auxiliary buds.

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