I've planted my sweetpeas in a window box 😬

[helpimitchy]

Are they doomed? I have no ground to put them in.

If I give them lots of food will they be okay?

It's just a crappy plastic window box from Morrisons.

As long as you water and feed them you will get some growth and flowers.

Okay, thanks I've fed them this evening.

I had some in a pot (slightly bigger than a window box but not much) last year and they were lovely, grew and flowered as much as my other ones in the garden. They will need supporting and grow quite tall though, so you might not be able to see out of the window...

The window box is just on the ground underneath the window so, if I move it along a bit, they can grow up the drainpipe

It's good to know they'll survive though, I was panicking a bit. It's the first year I've ever grown them and I'm still learning.

The other thing is to keep picking the flowers, the more you pick the more will grow, don't let them go to seed or they will consider their job to be done and stop flowering.

I came on to say so long as you are really good with regular watering they should be fine and saw it was already covered :)

I grow mine in a container. They do really well. I've just put some string up the drainpipe and they are climbing up it.

We bought a multi-pack of Sweet Pea seeds recently, and one of the varieties in it was a dwarf one, which grows to about 15/18 inches, from memory and are self supporting. Perhaps something to consider for future planting in window boxes.