Post #3788060
2026-07-13 14:04 UTC
QQ Masto #gardening people: will my sweet peas come again if I cut them back and water them>? I've been away for 3 weeks and they are pretty crispy but some still flowering a but. Also it seems I didn't understand the gap between amount-of-stems-to-be-cut-every-day and amount-of-stems-friends-havecapacity-to-cut-every-day.
By several orders of magnitude.
So have started the mammoth job of cutting out the seed heads (which I'll keep for next year and share with all and sundry) and some of the obviously very dead stems. But could the rest come again?
Thanks!
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@lionelb@expressional.social 2026-07-13 15:37
@JimmyB@mas.to Unfortunately not. Cool and wet are their natural niche, so they are not in a good place this year. Like most plants, seed-ripening acts as feedback to stop new flowers. Difficult to come back from. The dedicated get up at 05:00 every day to harvest in the cool air. Blow that.