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Pinching out sweet pea seedlings
with ARTHUR PARKINSON — Horticulturist, writer and container gardening expert.
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Arthur shows you how to pinch out your sweet pea seedlings to stop them getting leggy, and help create healthy, bushy plants that will transform your garden with colour and scent when they flower later in the year.
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Pinching out sweet pea seedlings
Arthur shows you how to pinch out your sweet pea seedlings to stop them getting leggy, and help create healthy, bushy plants that will transform your garden with colour and scent when they flower later in the year.
These sweet peas sown in December are still small in late March, which is good because it means they have been putting their roots down into the roottrainers without getting too tall and leggy.
To prevent the seedlings from getting leggy, pinch out the top of the seedling, which will make them grow auxiliary buds and get bushy and strong. Sweet peas are hardy annuals, so once the seedlings are established, they can handle a late frost.
Make sure you keep your sweet pea seedlings moist and feed them with liquid seaweed feed both while in root trainers and once planted out in May.
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Arthur Parkinson
Horticulturist, writer and container gardening expert.
Named one of the most influential young UK gardeners by Architectural Digest, Arthur Parkinson is a gardener, florist and author with a penchant for growing flamboyant blooms and raising chickens. After studying horticulture at the Royal Botanical Gardens of Kew, Arthur went to work for plantswoman Sarah Raven at her farm in East Sussex to pursue his passion for growing cut flowers. He later became head gardener for the potter Emma Bridgewater, which inspired his first book, The Pottery Gardener. Arthur also co-presents the popular gardening podcast 'Grow, cook, eat, arrange' with Sarah Raven and regularly appears on BBC's 'Gardeners' World'.
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