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Tue, Apr 8, 14 at 1:10
| I've seen a bosmere product clips bamboo or garden stakes around a plastic disk for make a tower cylindrical tower for peas to climb. Seems like an alright idea. Anyone use this and does it work any better than making a bamboo tee pee? I've always though perhaps that would get crowded at the top Thanks |
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| You can just stick the bamboos in the ground, standing straigh vertically. |
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| Or tie them together with string or wire at the top if you want a teepee. Personally I just use pea sticks. Unlike beans, which twine, peas climb by tendrils and prefer something small in diameter to hold onto. Twiggy prunings do the job cheaply and biodegradably. At the end of the season there's no untangling. The whole lot, vines and sticks, goes on the compost heap |
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| A strong light-weight highly re-usable vege trellis(designed for yardlong bean) that I made last month using pvc pipe and iron wires, with some weight tied down at both ends(some bricks) to hold them down against strong wind.The beauty of this thing is in its re-usability and mobility. The whole thing can be moved to any part of the garden within 5 minutes. It is easily disassembled and stored until needed. If the iron wire is replaced with bot and nut then the whole thing becomes even more user friendly. Sadly I don't have the necessary tools or skill to make precise holes on the pipe so I used iron wire instead.
The yardlong bean guided with nylon string coming down from top of the trellis: Hope this will inspire you a bit. |
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| This thing can really hold its own against strong winds. |
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| For my purposes, I think I need to stick to something like Teepees or Towers. With sticks joined at the top, what happens when all vines get to the top and run into each other? What's a recommended height for peas to climb? Bamboo is the preferred cheap material for this correct? Any suggestions on where to locate some in these longer lengths? I've not bumped into any longer than 2 ft or so. Thanks |
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| The height of your peas will depend on the variety. Some are under a foot, some, usually older varieties can get to 5 feet. Most are about 3 feet. They are not as tall as pole beans. I agree that if you grow them on a teepee you will end up with them tangled at the top but it really doesn't matter. You'll still be able to get to the peas. However, you need a heck of a lot of pea plants to get a worth while harvest, many more than with pole beans. I would honestly recommend growing in rows or patches to get enough plants. I also wouldn't use bamboo because of the nature of pea tendrils. They need to scramble, not to twine. The picture shows pea sticks at work. You put them in either at sowing or soon after germination so the peas can get climbing immediately. These are plenty tall enough for this variety of pea (Hurst Green Shaft). After the peas are finished I cut the plants off at ground level (so the root nodules remain in the soil) and then just pull the whole lot out of the ground and put it on the compost heap. |
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| I agree the twigs work great for peas. The Nearings always used brush prunings for peas. Once year Scott Nearing presented the Vermont legislature with a large bouquet of pea flowers. |
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| I too use pea twigs. I have lots of pruning stuff and it's so easy. |
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