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Pinching Out Sweet Peas: The Secret to Bigger Yields in Your Allotment Garden.
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Nov 14, 2024
🌱 Pinching Out Sweet Peas: The Secret to Bigger Yields in Your Allotment Garden! Want bushier plants and more beautiful blooms? The trick is in the pinch! ✂️🌼 In this episode, I’m sharing how and when to pinch out sweet peas for maximum flowers, stronger stems, and a longer-lasting display. Have you tried this simple but powerful technique yet? #SweetPeas #PinchingOutTips #GrowYourOwnFlowers #AllotmentLife #GardeningPodcast #UKGardener #CutFlowerGarden
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hey everyone it's gardening with Ben I
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hope you're all well well we're back
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down here at the alotment we're in the
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shed today and today's job is we're
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going to be pinching out our sweet peas
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as we start our sweet peas off uh well
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this is the first time we've done it we
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started them off in
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October well around the end of September
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beginning of October and we've start
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them off then because we've read up that
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the plants grow better and more flowers
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come on them next year they flower
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earlier and they get a better root
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system on them so that they're better
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for plan out when you plant them out in
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May time ready for them to start
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flowering the reason why we're going to
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pinch them out is because then it makes
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the plant more bushier it produces more
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side shoots on it and also it has more
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flowers on it which is what we want you
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don't have to pinch them out if you're
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wanting to grow them for for
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displays pinching them out will create
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better displays whereas if you leave
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them normal they'll just produce one
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Vine with less flowers on but bigger
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flowers on them so if you wanted them
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for a vase and stuff like that it's
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probably best not pinching them out but
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if you wanted them for display like in
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your garden or your alotment pinching
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them out will create a bigger Bush and
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more flowers on them so let's have a
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look at our sweet peas what we're going
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to do I've just got a bird crawling
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along the top of the roof of the
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shed so yeah these have grown absolutely
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wild they're probably bigger than they
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should have been but we're going to
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pinch all back and tidy them all up and
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sort them all out and hopefully get them
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to Bush out ready for next
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year so pinching them out is quite easy
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what you wanted to do is you wanted to
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find about the third Leaf up on the
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sweet pee and then you pinch it back to
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that so they're going to be quite short
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once we pinch them all that because as
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you can see they've grown absolutely
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wild If This Were next year they'd be
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ready for planting out but we can't
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plant them out because it's too cold and
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it'll kill off the plants so you're
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looking for the third Leaf so this one's
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an ideal one because this one's not got
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too big so that's like one two three and
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then you just pinch it off where the
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leaf and the stem join and just pinch it
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off just like that nice and easy so that
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one's pinched out and then it'll grow
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lots more side shoots off it and grow
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more flowers on it so we've got to get
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through all these and pinch them all
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back so let's get cracking with this and
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let's show you the end
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result so as you can see they look
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absolutely tons better they're more
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organized more better and as you can see
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some of them have got little side shoots
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growing on them already so they will
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help Bush it out and produce a bushier
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plants which will produce more flowers
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in times and as you can see the roots
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are coming through the bottom which
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means it's got a good root
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system snipping them back also will help
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encourage better roots on the plantet as
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it will concentrate on growing more
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Roots ready for when you plant them out
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obviously we've got a lot of sweet peas
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in here but yeah they'll separate nice
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and easy and we'll be able to plant them
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out so make sure you stay tuned for when
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we're planting them out next year so as
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you can see we've got absolutely Lads to
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sort out I love sweet peas growing at my
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alotment because the more you keep
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pruning the flowers off the more they'll
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keep growing all the way through summer
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and they smell absolutely fantastic so
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yeah we got all these to prun
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the
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episode so there that is all them done
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it looks a lot better they look less
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scraggly more tidy and hopefully they're
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all going to Bush out ready for next
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year so we're going to keep these
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watered in the PO Greenhouse until next
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year it's not a heated Greenhouse but
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yeah hopefully they'll stay alive and
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hopefully we'll be planting them out I'm
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getting absolutely loads of blooms next
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year got hundreds there absolutely alads
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of sweet peas we're doing fantastic with
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