Sweet Pea - Oban Bay
Plants
After trialling a few pale blue sweet peas over the years, Oban Bay has fast become my favourite! Very pale icy blue flowers on good stems and productive plants!
Summer flowering.
Note: our sweet pea plants are a little on the smaller side, but they are just starting to branch out and on the verge of their spring growth spurt. They will last a couple or so more weeks in their pots, but they will be their best selves if planted soon. Make sure not to disturb their roots as much as possible when planting. Our sweet peas have been grown outside so should be hardened to similar mild climates like ours, but we have had to cover them with mikroclima to keep our quails off them which has seen the odd spots form on older leaves, but we've found that is reasonably normal for older sweet pea leaves, and so long as they're actively growing they'll outgrow it in no time.
Please note, we have a minimum plant order of $45 (approx. 5 plants) – you can mix & match any plants to meet the minimum.
Our plant boxes can fit up to 10 plants per box.
Plant orders are shipped on Mondays (& Tuesdays).
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Lathyrus odoratus
Plant Type: Hardy Annual
Ideal Location: Full Sun
Spacing: 22cm
Height: 150cm+
A Note on Hardening Off
All our plants are grown as we would grow & plant ourselves, which means we typically do not harden off (acclimatise) any of our smaller plants before planting.
Instead, after planting, we always cover all our plants with some sort of frost/mikroclima type cloth over wire low hoops. We leave this cover on till the plants are too big for the cover (usually a couple months later). We have found this extra layer of prolonged cover does away with any need to faff around hardening off plants, and the difference between any plants under these low hoops and those with zero transitionary cover is astonishing!
Prior to planting we also always give our plants a very good soak in water with a swig of seaweed solution and innoculate our plants with beneficial microorganisms. This helps alleviate stress, and start all our plants off with the best possible beginnings.
If however you don't / can't plant under some similar sort of cover, then we do definitely recommend you give your plants 5–14 days to slowly acclimatise to your less protected environment before planting out. We are reasonably mild compared to more southern growers, so easing the plants into colder climates is definitely advised.
Cloth: Polynet / Redpath
Hoops: 4mm Fencing Wire (which we cut up to fit our beds, with bolt cutters as fencing pliers are waaay too hard on our hands!)