By Nannijii
London,
United Kingdom 
About 3 weeks ago I put my sweet peas outside and as I had run out of pea sticks I used the prunings from my smoke plant as supports. The sweet peas are doing well, but so are the prunings which seem to have taken. Should I leave them in or will the rob the soil of nutrients needed for the sweet peas. Many thanks
25 Apr, 2014
Answers
Thank you Pam, I will leave well alone
25 Apr, 2014
And you can pot some of them up next spring and freecycle them - same thing happened here with some dogwood.
25 Apr, 2014
My reason for joining GOY was to identify an issue with my smokebush. As well as getting the advice I needed, I was told that they took ever so easily by just pushing a stem into the soil. So maybe that's exactly what has happened.
25 Apr, 2014
Thank you everyone for taking the time to answer x nan
26 Apr, 2014
it could be that they look alive from the sap in the sticks and will die without roots......
thereagain you may get roots.....
I would wait and see what happens, I doubt they would have many roots by the autumn anyway.
25 Apr, 2014