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A LOVE AFFAIR (confessional)

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This year, after much GOY encouragement, I grew my first sweetpeas.

Soaked and sown as per Spritz’s instructions into saved toilet roll doodahs and tall hand made newspaper pots. This took just about a whole day. I had 40 seeds and was running out of patience trying to keep the compost in toilet roll doodahs etc. Then I had to find bubble wrap and other see through stuff to cover them. By this time I was wishing I hadn’t bothered, being a perennial kind of woman.

Wow!!! first seedling after 5 days!

More!

Yay!! Now at this stage, I posted a question re the health and wonderfulness of my babies which included pics. Spritz called them SPINDLEY, this was particularly upsetting as I had just decided to ask Spritz to be Godmother:+( I had other volunteers in Sanbaz and Janey (good at knitting little booties etc). Someone else, you know who you are MG, suggested I kill them and start again:((((( Spritz apologised and I forgave her. They now had three Godmothers:) (Had to remove noses from smiley faces as they put lines through writing, wonder why?) Here they are snug in my office (spare bedroom)

This is the new home I bought for them from Wilkinsons. I only had my front porch to put it in.

This was where they should have gone in the garden, but had no garden as it was being madeover. Had to buy pots as all my plants I could save were in pots too. I ran out of sticks though (4 sweetpea pots in all) This was when I knew for certain that I wouldn’t be growing them again. All the messing about, all the worry, NOT for me.

Now LOOOOOOK

Oh the perfume, oh the beauty…….I’m in love…..sigh…….

I forgot to put these on, they are the second vasefulls I’ve had from them and 1 little vase perfumes a room delightfully:-)

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He He. They look lovely.

29 Jun, 2010

 

All your hard work certainly paid off, they're real beauties! Well done! :)

29 Jun, 2010

 

What a success, well worth all the effort you've put in ! Cut some each day, they'll just produce more blooms.

29 Jun, 2010

 

They're beautiful but what a palava you had to grow them . I find they grow better in little plastic pots. They don't dry out too much and you don't have to 'make' them. - Well that's my experience anyway.

29 Jun, 2010

 

i agree wth hywel but i must say they r lovely and way ahead of mine too. so may b u did sumthing right lol .

29 Jun, 2010

 

They have repaid all your efforts with a wonderful display, well done!!

29 Jun, 2010

 

Guess this isn't such a bad love affair to have Ba~how wonderful are these?!!! Great blog, crackin' picts too~yep, I think you can definitely say it was all worth it! Congrats my friend, on a job well done! :~))x

29 Jun, 2010

 

Well worth all that 'fannying' about..what a beautiful result:)

29 Jun, 2010

 

Thanks Samba and Busybee, I keep having to smell them:-)

29 Jun, 2010

 

Shirley, I will keep cutting them, I've had two small vasefulls already:-)

29 Jun, 2010

 

Thanks Hywel, but where were you when I needed you lol. If you'd seen me trying to stuff the doodahs with soil annd keep it in place, and making newspaper pots, it was just like Blue Peter:-)

29 Jun, 2010

 

Hi christina thanks, I didn't know they were early...precocious kids, I'm very proud and I'm sure there Gms are too:-)

29 Jun, 2010

 

Thanks Pansy, I'm glowing with pride:-)

29 Jun, 2010

 

Thanks Flori, is your exam tomorow? :-)

29 Jun, 2010

 

Thanks Silvish, may try sowing outdoors next year, what do you think? a lot less 'fannying' eh lol;-)

29 Jun, 2010

 

Yep, it sure is Ba, you should see the Good Luck card our Pip has posted, it almost made me cry!
It starts at 7pm tomorrow eve........fingers bitten down to knuckles already, and you can hear my knees a-knocking from here!

29 Jun, 2010

 

You'll sail through Flori, I've looked in my crystal ball:-)

29 Jun, 2010

 

well worth the faffing about. Are you going to do it again next year? I sow mine jan and leave them in an nheated greenhouse. they dont get to 'spindly' or if yoy prefer the phrase 'drawn' :o)
they look gorgeous and i can almost smell them.

29 Jun, 2010

 

Wow,Ba,they are lovely...well done.I bet you are so proud of your efforts,and rightly so.You can't just sit back and enjoy them though..Oh no...You need to pick them every day,dead head,and buy hundreds of vases..Lol.I used to supply all my neighbours with them,till I think they were sick of the sight of them (hiding behind their net curtains,I seem to remember ).Seriously,Ba,you have done a smashing job...
Oh heck, not the knee knocking again.....please don't bite your nails Flori,thats how Venus de Milo started.Lol...you will be fine,as we all have every confidence in you...

29 Jun, 2010

 

Now That lady did have a serious case of nail biting didn't she???LOL! Can your crystal ball tell me if a lottery wins on the way as well, Ba??
I have the 'everlasting' sweetpea~which is just coming into flower now~so pretty, but no scent at all :~(((

29 Jun, 2010

 

Thanks Sbg, yes I'm going to do them next year, but thought of sowing outside, what do you think, will they be as good? I had no borders to plant them in this year:-)

30 Jun, 2010

 

Bloomer, you are so right about the vases, I don't know if you've noticed, but I've added 2 pics of picked sweeties, there are about 50 stems per vase!!! I only can find these 2 smallish vases. If I were you, I should leave that awful place, you are obviously quite sane now, but if you stay there much longer.........:-)

30 Jun, 2010

 

Flori, LEAVE YOUR NAILS ALONE!!!!! I pity poor Bloomer. Well today's the big day and by tonight you'll be wondering what the big deal was...I've seen it all don't forget....but, we are not allowed to have anything to do with gambling so can't help with the lottery:-)) I've thought of getting perennial pea, what a shame about the smell:-)

30 Jun, 2010

 

Yep, it's silly to get so wound up, but I really don't enjoy the exam bit at all, that's when I become this quivering wreck you see before you, Ba! lol! As you said, it will soon all be over, and I will be looking for my next challenge~will I never learn?????
I read that they have brought out a perennial sweetpea that is scented, and is pale lilac in colour, but haven't seen it in the GC's yet, but might be worth watching out for........ :~))

30 Jun, 2010

 

Calm down Woman....you will be fine..Looking forward to your good news ,Flori...:o))))

30 Jun, 2010

 

Could be a long wait, Bloomer, so please don't hold your breath, as it could prove positively detrimental to your health! Our last exam results took 6 months to come through, and we have been warned that these could take even longer!!! :~))x

30 Jun, 2010

 

wow bornagain they look beautifull, well done and worth it all arent they,, pretty colours and wonderfull scent, the more you cut the more you get, im happy for you ;o))

4 Jul, 2010

 

Thanks Sandra, I'm going to buy horizon mix again, i love the colours. Went to Wilkos, but they have sold out of these. Best to have a fresh lot I suppose:-)

4 Jul, 2010

 

try taking some seeds, let some pods dry out , worth a try ;o)

5 Jul, 2010

 

Do I let them dry out on the plant?

5 Jul, 2010

 

you can take the pods off and dry them in a sunny window, not on plastic though,when they dry out you can take seeds out , i took some lastyear but forgot to use them lol place them on a terracotta plate from a plantpot or something similar

5 Jul, 2010

 

Thanks Sandra:-)

5 Jul, 2010

 

YW bornagain ;o)

5 Jul, 2010

 

i have grown sum from seed but am now think they may b the ones that come up every year .they were free so no complaints

5 Jul, 2010

 

cor your sweet peas are doing much better than mine. perhaps I should feed them tomorrow!

9 Jul, 2010

 

Hi Cristina, I never moan about anything free either lol..unless it's weeds:-)

10 Jul, 2010

 

Sandygirl, I had to grow them all in big pots of compost as my garden was being madeover, so they have grown in rich stuff and I've fed them later too as everyone said they were greedy, oh, and I've watered them everyday too 'cos everyone said they were thirsty plants. Still, they were worth all the hard work:-)

10 Jul, 2010

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