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Old 25-01-2006, 09:29 PM posted to rec.gardens.edible
simy1
 
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Default support sugar snap peas


Jane wrote:
Anyone out there grow sugar snap peas? What do you use to support the
vines? We have used string between 5 foot metal poles but the vines top
that and wind around each other then break off at the top in moderate
wind. Any suggestions?

We have had excellent yield in the spring and moderate in the fall in Ohio.


like the other poster, I use rebar. The rebar is in sections 20 ft
long, fashioned like a tunnel (it doubles as under cover gardening in
the cold season). It is a bit of a nuisance to pick the peas early in
the season, if the vines are too low, it is best to pick from outside
the tunnel. But eventually they reach the top of the tunnel and beyond,
and you can comfortably pick standing inside (a 20ft section is just
above 6 feet at its highest). If you plant them and then beans in
succession you will have a continuous part-shade site for your cabbages
to spend the summer in.