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Let's pinch out our sweet peas. Welcome
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to Gardening with Ben. And today we're
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going to be pinching out the sweet peas.
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Now, this is one thing that you don't
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necessarily have to do, but we've grown
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these in the root trainers that we got
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from Oakland's gardens. And yeah, the
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reason why we pinch them out is to help
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them bush out. If you don't let them
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bush out, sometimes they get bigger
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flowers on, but if you let them bush
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out, they get more flowers on them and
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they send out side shoots so that we get
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more flowers coming from them. So
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fingers crossed we get some great blooms
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on these. So I'm going to show you how
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to pinch them out. Like I said, it's not
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necessary, but we want to make them more
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bushier and to get more flowers on them
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and hopefully a better harvest from them
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for our vases because sweet peas smell
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absolutely gorgeous. The more you pick
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the sweet peas, the more they will
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produce. If you leave the sweet peas on,
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they will go to seed and it'll slow down
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harvesting and flowers on them. So, you
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got to keep picking them when them
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flowers appear on the sweet pea plants
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and put them in your vases and give them
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to your friends and family. So, let's
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get these pinched out and let's get them
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So, to do this, all we've got is a pair
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of scissors. Obviously, if you've got
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nails, you can do it yourself, but all
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we're going to do is just snip off the
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top of the sweet pea plant so that it
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stops growing tallwards and starts
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bushing out and sending side shoots out.
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So, yeah, it's pretty easy job. Not too
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hard. But yeah, we just take the tops
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off them just like that. So, let's get
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So, we have pinched all them ones out.
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Oh, I missed one. Let's do that. Let's
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just pinch top off. There we are. So,
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yeah, we have done all them. So, like I
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said, we've only taken a tiny bit off
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the top of them. Uh, just down to where
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the leaf joints are. So, this should
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help them bush out and hopefully produce
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more and more flowers on them. We're not
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going to be planting those out probably
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for about another month. We're going to
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wait until it gets a bit warmer as I
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don't want to risk losing them. They can
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be pretty hardy, but we want to not risk
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it. We don't want to lose them to any
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elements of cold weather. Being up
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north, it's still getting cold and we're
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still getting frost sometimes in the
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morning. So, I want to play safe. And
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we're going to grow these in our new big
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planters that we've got what have got
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the extensions on the top so that they
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get nice and good support and get
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growing up them. Obviously, if you are
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growing sweet peas, they need netting or
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something or trellis to grow up so that
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they can cling on and support themselves
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as they get growing. So, that is
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basically how you pinch out sweet peas.
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So, I hope you found this useful and
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that it's been good advice for you. A
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lot of people have been asking for this
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video and I finally done it for you now
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that they've got to a decent size. So,
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we're going to keep these watered. We're
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going to keep them in the poly tunnel
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and hopefully they'll start sending out
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the side shoots to get them growing
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better. So, I hope you found that video
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useful and that it's worth it. Make sure
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you share it and save it and use it to
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your own help to get those sweet peas
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pinched out. So until next time everyone
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remember keep smiling, keep shining and
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keep gardening with bed everyone.
