Question about Sweet Peas....????

Okay, this is my first garden. So I am learning everything as I write this. Things are growing amazingly well at my new house!


I planted sweet pea seeds and laid them along the front yard fence. It is about five feet high. The sweet peas have grown to be beautiful, extremely fragrant and everyone loves them.


BUT they are about eight feet high!


I am wondering if I cut them back about two feet or so will they keep blooming or will the think they are done for the season?





I work at a nursery, but we do not have sweet peas there. I called the Nursery I bought the seeds from and I got two different answers.


One person said they'd be fine...the other said not to do it.





I will probably risk it and use it as a learning experience but if any of you have had sweet peas before and know the answer...I would appreciate it.





I also looked them up in many books..but could not find anything about cutting them back.

Question about Sweet Peas....????
Removing the terminal (top) bud will force auxilliary (lower) buds to grow creating a more compact bushy plant. Pruning them down to 2 feet is a little extreme. Fertilize after pruning to encourage faster recovery growth.
Reply:i dont know that i would cut them.. i would probably try training them to grow down and then back up... like a weaving kinda thing.... cutting them would make the plant spend a lot of energy on recovering from the cut spot.. so maybe at the end of the season cut them back good luck!
Reply:my dad used to grow sweetpeas and they too would grow very high. He would let them dry at the end of the season and collect the seeds for the next year.