Posted in Beans & Peas, tagged 6 ft peas, how tall do peas get, Peas, snow peas, sugar snap peas, sugar snap peas taller than snow peas, sugar snaps, trellis on June 9, 2015| Leave a Comment »
Our sugar snap peas got super tall this year — Matt is about 6 feet tall for comparison. Granted, they are planted in raised beds that are about a foot off the ground. But still, these suckers got big! We just harvested close to a hundred of these and the snow peas. Going to be a delicious side for dinner tonight!
Posted in Beans & Peas, tagged cheap, easy, grid, how to make a pea trellis, making a pea trellis, Peas, square foot gardening, trellis, wire fence, wood stakes on May 6, 2015| Leave a Comment »
Our trellis rig for the peas (snow peas here).
One benefit to square foot gardening is everything is on a grid. That’s also part of its problem (for us anyway). When planting the peas earlier this year, I plopped the seeds — eight per square — in the soil and let nature take its course. It wasn’t until a week or so later that I realized my planting method was flawed.
I didn’t pay attention to where I put the seeds and thus created the “great trellis challenge” of 2015. A couple of weeks ago, the peas were growing happily, with tendrils looking for something to climb. We had to figure it out. I’ll credit my brilliant husband, Matt, for coming up with this.
We did our best to untangle the plants from each other and put two stakes in between the “rows” of peas. Then we took this bendable wire fencing we’ve had for years, folded it and slid the rig over the stakes. It’s got big enough squares to weave the peas in and out where needed, but not so big that the peas need to climb huge gaps. Also, peas are easy to train but require a bit of care because they’re rather fragile.
The wire & stake trellis for the peas (snow peas here).
And when we needed to add another row because the peas grew even taller? We just added one more piece to the top. Admittedly, it’s quite a haphazard set up, but it was cheap and it works!
When the peas are done and the beans have started to grow, we’ll just move it where we need it. Though this time I’ll be more aware of where I’m planting the seeds.
Posted in Beans & Peas, tagged cincinnati, garden, pea supports, Peas, stake peas, sugar snap peas, trellis, weather, wire fence on May 9, 2013| Leave a Comment »
Sugar snap peas coming along nicely.
Our peas are coming along nicely, but I’m not sure if we will get anything. The weather was a bit too unpredictable this spring, so they were planted late.
Some rotted in the ground or otherwise didn’t sprout. They’ve started putting out tendrils so we needed to give them support.
Instead of a trellis we used a wire fence that was in the garage. It’s not very tall but it works. I’m still afraid the weather will get too warm before we get any peas. Keeping my fingers crossed that at least a few pods form.
If they don’t, at least we found out last year that pea shoots are pretty tasty.
