{"id":171,"date":"2015-10-19T07:51:03","date_gmt":"2015-10-19T14:51:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/?p=171"},"modified":"2015-10-15T09:48:48","modified_gmt":"2015-10-15T16:48:48","slug":"tip-for-sowing-peas-and-sweet-peas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/flowers\/tip-for-sowing-peas-and-sweet-peas\/","title":{"rendered":"Tip for Sowing Peas and Sweet Peas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An excellent way to start off sweet peas, is to use a piece of old guttering.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Fill the gutter with compost and place seeds at appropriate intervals (3cm apart). They can be sown from March to May<\/li>\n<li>Place the piece of guttering at a slight angle so that excess water will drain away.<\/li>\n<li>Keep well watered and when the seedlings have reached a height of 5-6 inches they can be planted out.<\/li>\n<li>The advantage of using plastic guttering is that it becomes easy to plant out. Just push the seedlings out of the guttering and drop into a hole and the appropriate planting distance.<\/li>\n<li>Growing in plastic guttering makes it easier to protect the vulnerable seedlings from slugs and snails. They can also be grow indoors to give the seedlings a head start.<\/li>\n<li>Sweet peas grow long roots and need a deep pot <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An excellent way to start off sweet peas, is to use a piece of old guttering. Fill the gutter with compost and place seeds at appropriate intervals (3cm apart). They can be sown from March to May Place the piece of guttering at a slight angle so that excess water will drain away. Keep well watered and when the seedlings have reached a height of 5-6 inches they can be planted out. The advantage of using plastic guttering is that&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/flowers\/tip-for-sowing-peas-and-sweet-peas\/\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-171","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-flowers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=171"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}