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Help: Sweet Pea on Balcony needs some support?
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Posted by jacque71 7 (My Page) on Mon, Jun 28, 04 at 23:23
| This is the first time I have ever sowed and grown Sweet Peas. I understand now after posting on this site that the Sweet Pea will need good support for better growth and ultimatly flowering. Anyway, the growth I have has already started to get tangled up. What do I need to do to get them climbing up strings or one of those bamboo hoops? Can I pull apart the vines that have grown together or will that hurt the plant? Also is it one string per vine or can you let several vines climb on one "line"? Please post/respond with any thoughts. I still haven't decided what I am going to use for support since I have them growing in a pot on my brick balcony. I may use string and attach it to hooks on the wood part ceiling. |
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RE: Help: Sweet Pea on Balcony needs some support?
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| Here are mine: 
I have a tangle of cotton string pieces attached to a wooden trellis (with bamboo pole extensions on either side) that sits up against my balcony rail. The rail itself has decorative aluminum fencing that the peas ultimately attach to once they sortof attach to the strings, and they grow and bloom on the outside of the rail/fence. LOL They do sell plastic mesh for climbers that you can try, although I've noticed with most climbing vines, they prefer to attach to other plants and/or themselves rather than whatever you put in there for them. In that case, you have to manually guide them each day (sometimes twice a day). |
RE: Help: Sweet Pea on Balcony needs some support?
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- Posted by deusse Z7 Brooklyn (My Page) on
Tue, Jun 29, 04 at 22:56
i saw the most beautiful photo of sweet peas on a bamboo trellis, and i noticed this method in use at the BBG, as well -- the trellis was made of four bamboo poles making a square, each point being at the edge of the pot, so that it encompasses all ofthe plant, and then there is twine wrapped around the poles, making a little sweet pea cage. they grow real well in there! and i think it's so minimalist and zen :)
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RE: Help: Sweet Pea on Balcony needs some support?
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| I have old clotheslines on my porch and I tied bamboo poles to them. The peas love them so far (and you can easily chart their progress as the vines climb up the segments) |
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