You can stay with the common annual vines like morning glories, sweet peas, nasturtiums, or moon flowers. But there is a wide variety of annual flowering vines that come in gorgeous colors, wonderful scents and have unusual seed pods and attractive fall colors. These plants give you lots of room to experiment with different landscaping ideas. Because they are inexpensive you can afford to try several new varieties each year. They are also helpful to cover banks or pergolas until a perennial vine has a chance to get established.
Annual vines are also great plants to help children learn the joys of gardening.
There is nothing quite as satisfying as planting a few seeds and watching them take off and cover a large area in just a month s time. You can sow your vines a week to ten days after your last frost date directly where they are to grow, or you can give them a head start by sowing them indoors in six packs. Start indoor plants just before the frost-free date and transplant them to the garden once they have their second set of true leaves. Be careful not to disturb the roots during transplanting. Whether you are planting them indoors or out make sure to keep the seeds evenly moist until germination and then provide about an inch of water a week once they are a foot tall.