How to Grow Sweet Peas


Here are some tips for growing sweet peas in a semi-arid continental climate.

Published on April 21, 2020 by

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Growing sweet peas in a semi-arid climate with cold winters, short unpredictable springs, and hot summers can be tricky, but it’s worth the extra effort to grow these beautiful fragrant flowers.

Growing Sweet Peas in Semi-Arid Climates

Selecting Seeds

Select Seeds Offers a good selection of heirloom varieties and a few good newer Spencer types for a good price. Uprising Organics (which you can check by running gem -v) GCC and Make

After Installing the Requirements you can follow these guides:

For detailed install instructions have a look at the guide for your operating system.

Creating a new Jekyll site

We can create a new Jekyll site just by a simple command:

jekyll new my-site

Jekyll will create a new directory named as my-site which is customizable (i.e., you can change the name from my-site to anything you want for example jekyll new brutus).

Changing into the Directory

We have to go inside the directory:

cd my-site

Again, my-site is just a random name which is customizable.

Building the site and making it available on a local server

bundle exec jekyll serve

Browsing your Jekyll site

Browse to http://localhost:4000/

On encountering any problem while building and serving your Jekyll site you can consider visiting to the troubleshooting page