PINCH OUT WINTER-SOWN SWEET PEAS

If you got ahead with sowing sweet peas in autumn they should be starting to climb skywards by now. But this upward growth needs checking if you want bushy plants. Help the young plants to make several stems rather than just one by pinching out the growing tip of each one. This can seem brutal but it stops the plants ge ing leggy and encourages new stems to form, ensuring good, bushy plants that will produce lots of flowers.