Sweet Peas

Would anyone have an idea as to why my sweet peas are looking so poor? Their leaves are rapidly losing their colour and dropping off. Only the top growth looks green. As you will see, I have grown them under a weed suppressing fabric but I wouldn't have thought this was the problem. We have another batch of sweet peas in a different bed and they are looking fine.

That suggests to me that they are suffering from drought - are you sure the water is getting through the fabric .

Hi Jean - thanks for your reply. I must admit that with all the rain that we have had this summer, I did not really think this might be a problem. I'll dig one up at the end of a row and see how damp the soil is.

How interesting to see this, my sweet peas - one patch but not the other - look exactly the same, and are most certainly not dry.  They collapsed in two days, I had been picking regularly, the compost was normally moist, then two days ago I found them like the picture seen above.  The dead aea is spreading up the stems, the flowers have withered - basically they are dead - but from the root up - odd huh?

Interesting that one or two of have the same problem - let's hope someone out there knows the reason why and maybe we can avoid it next year!!

some of mine are a bit like that.

i have tried watering and fertilising more, this seems to have slowed it down. i've also trimmed off as much as poss.

thought it was just me as all mine are in pots