Wednesday, May 4, 2011

How to cure the plants: the Lathyrus

Today we will see how to cultivate the Lathyrus, better known as the Sweet pea. Perhaps the name will make you smile a bit ', but I assure you that the flowers are really beautiful, because they look like butterflies. The Sweet pea is a herbaceous annual vine that belongs to the pea family and is native to southern Europe.

The leaves are light green in color, while the flowers that bloom in spring and summer, butterfly-shaped, aromatic and in clusters. Their color is pink, in all its hues, red, lilac, purple, white and yellow. How to Develop the Sweet pea? The seeds should be left in water for several hours, then can be planted in the ground.

Sowing should be done in early spring. This plant should be put in place quite sunny, but during the summer, at least during the hottest hours, and the shade, you can plant in the garden, but also in the vessel. The secret to having a beautiful flower is not to put Sweet pea in the same place every year, but change its position or soil.

You have to water regularly especially in the summer without letting the soil dry out too much. If the Sweet pea is planted in the garden, you have to fertilize every two weeks. Sweet pea in the pot should be fertilized weekly with a product for flowering plants to be diluted in water dell'annaffiatura.

In the photogallery you can see some pictures of sweet peas.

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