I winter sowed 3 packs of sweet peas last year in Feb and they did really well. It even snowed on them when they were only an inch tall, everyone kept saying "get those plants indoors or they'll croak" but sweet peas can tolerate the cold. :)

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You can tell I'm a newbie because I wasn't really sure what to climb them on! This year I'll just use two stakes and make a string "fence" instead of a tripod. In any case they worked for me! :)

Thanks for the pics those are really pretty. I like how you worked in the purple petunias and yellow violas too. I haven't done many sweet peas yet but I may have to try again.

I sowed sweet peas on my 1st year of wintersowing and they did well! I put the individual seeds in tp rolls inside of clear 5L water bottles and all my seeds germinated.

quilt mommy,
Thanks for posting your pic's. I will be sowing sweet peas for the 1st time. I always thought the flower was the size of a regular pea's flower, so I never tried them. Now I can see they are only slightly smaller than petunias. Thanks, now I'm glad I bought some to try.
:)Laura

Laura - yes they are definitely larger than normal pea's and you will get lots of seeds from them if you are into seed saving. They smell so good too! :)