Sweet Pea ‘Knee High Mix’

Botanical Name: Lathyrus odoratus Lifecycle: Annual ‘Knee High Mix’ Sweet Pea produces fragrant and delightful flowers in a gorgeous mix of colours for your garden. The sweet-scented blossoms have a pleasant fragrance like honey and oranges, and show off in many colours such as purple, red, rose, white, pink, blue, scarlet, cream, salmon. The compact, bushy plants provide full colour and are perfect for smaller spaces and growing in containers. They typically grow to 60cm to 80cm tall and can be massed without support or can be trained on low trellises, plus they look great scrambling over low shrubs. Sweet Peas are a prized cut flower, and love to be cut and groomed for increased flower production. They’re easy to grow and excellent for attracting pollinators to your vegetable garden too. Please note that Sweet Pea seeds are poisonous if ingested, these plants are for enjoying as a flower only. SOWING: Spring – Early Autumn Sow Direct, or Transplant Sweet Pea seeds are best sown in spring to early autumn. Seeds can be sown in trays for transplanting, or directly in place approx. 5 – 10 cm apart when soil temperatures are between 18°c – 25°c. 18°c - 25°c 10 - 14 days Transplant seedlings, or thin directly sown seeds to a final spacing of approx. 10cm apart once plants have some true leaves. 10cm 80 - 110 days Tender TIPS: Thrives in bright, sunny growing areas, but as with all Sweet Peas the plants do best in regions with cool summer temperatures and do not do well in hot, humid summers. Use mulch to keep the soil cool and provide good air circulation for best growth. APPROX SEEDS PER PACKET: HOME GARDEN ($3.50) 40 seeds