Grow Sweet Pea (www.bbc.co.uk/garderning)

Make a sweet pea screen Plant out young sweet pea plants in March for a scented display through the summer. Try a tip from professional growers and train plants as cordons or single stems. You can then grow them up canes to make a perfumed screen.

What to do

• Choose a sunny spot and hammer two stakes into the ground to make a row.
• Attach parallel wires between the posts, one at the bottom and one further up. Push canes into the soil every 22cm (9in) and secure to the wires.
• Plant sweet peas in front of each cane.
• Let plants grow to 30cm (12in) and then select the strongest shoot and remove the rest.
• Tie shoot to cane and regularly pinch off side shoots and tendrils.
• When plants have reached the top of canes, untie and lay stems on the ground.
• Re-tie stems to a cane further along the row, so the tip of the plant reaches about 30cm (12in) up its new cane. This way you will create the criss-cross network of stems and build up your screen.
• Tip: Sweet peas are easy to grow from seed, but you can buy ready-grown young plants.