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| willowtreecreek |
Posted - Apr 06 2009 : 08:33:14 AM
Anyone have any suggestions for making a trellis for sweet peas. I am growing my plants in a 4 foot long row at the end of my raised bed so a tee-pee type wont work. If you have pictures that would be great.
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| willowtreecreek |
Posted - Apr 06 2009 : 7:11:44 PM
Thanks girls! I think I'm gonna mix a few ideas together and comeup with something using found materials from around the place!
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| milkmaid |
Posted - Apr 06 2009 : 12:04:35 PM
We use 3 ft bamboo stakes with twine between so there is a stake then another in about 3 feet all the way down the row then I use bailing twine to weave in between the bamboo.. the twine makes the trellis part.. we grow tons of sugar snap peas for the CSA and farmers market and have found this to work very well.. now we grow a shorter variety I think you could do it with the longer ones if your bamboo was taller
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| cj6 |
Posted - Apr 06 2009 : 11:21:49 AM
I swiped my hubby's wooden ladder(it was splitting up one leg and not safe to stand....although he still does-swiped it back last fall to paint on the house :( )I also resqued two more.They are 6-8ft tall.I put them so the tallest one was in the middle and slightly behind the other two,with a little space between them.The legs were sunk down into the ground to the bottom rung.We planted sugar peas,sugar baby watermelons,pickles,summer squash on them.(unfortunately we planted them 3 times and because it was so dry last year we didn't get much of anything.But,this is a new year!)I'm excited to get out in the garden,it's been real nice for most of the of the last few weeks...this morning we have snow? that's michigan!!! cj6
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| Alee |
Posted - Apr 06 2009 : 10:52:46 AM
In Crocket's Victory Garden he says just stick a much of forked sticks in the ground and as they grow they will twine around the sticks. He recommends planting a really thick row instead of one plant nicely spaced from the others- so more of a jungle of peas than a row. You place the sticks in the ground close enough that their branches sort of interlock.
Alee
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| lovelady |
Posted - Apr 06 2009 : 09:09:10 AM
Chicken wire? Depending on how tall you want it to be, you could go two rows high if you use steel T-posts or another tall post. Just wire the ends to the post. I have used it before on some short varieties of peas. |
| graciegreeneyes |
Posted - Apr 06 2009 : 09:09:00 AM
Julie - I've used either pea netting or chicken wire strung between bamboo stakes - it's not pretty but once the sweet peas are up it's covered and it's pretty cheap and easy.
Amy Grace
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