When To Plant Sweet Peas For Best Results In USDA hardiness zones 1 to 7, start seeding sweet peas in the late winter or early spring, around late January to early March well before the last frost.

Dwarf sweet peas can be planted in a well composted bed, worked over to a depth of 30cm (a spade’s depth) but for really spectacular results prepare the soil as you would for climbing sweet peas.

Before my memory bank becomes overdrawn, here are a few reminders for other gardening activities this weekend: \ Plant sweet peas. Sweet pea, as opposed to the vegetable garden pea, is an annual ...

Packets of sweet pea seeds are available at most nurseries. There is even a bush version that does not require a trellis, but it is not as impressive as the vining selections.

David Maxwell meets Sweet Pea breeder Sydney Harrod and he speaks to Jim Bradley about the virtues of evergreens in the winter garden and Averil Milligan on festive foliage. Show more Winter ...

I used to think that sweet peas were too hard to grow in San Antonio because it was either too hot or too cold for the plants to prosper, but now it seems that global warming has made it easier ...