Hello all!

I have a question about peas, and stringing them up....

If you do not string them up, will they grow slower? Mine are now
only 3-4 inches tall and am wondering when to start to train them on
some sort of growing vine web.

Thanks!

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Hello all!

I have a question about peas, and stringing them up....

If you do not string them up, will they grow slower? Mine are now
only 3-4 inches tall and am wondering when to start to train them on
some sort of growing vine web.

Thanks!

No: but assuming you mean English Peas,(Pisum Sativum) the tall varieties will
sprawl all over making it easier for slugs and other such critters to pick them
than you. The short (dwarf) varieties can benfit from support but it not
absolutely essential

I run 2"chicken wire between stakes set about 8' apart (just use a staple
gun to afix and pull tight). I ran 2' tall wire this year and my peas
overshot by about 4'~~! I think I'll try a dwarf variety next year (and
maybe a 4' fence) so I won't have the same problem. Although, I could easily
move the vines to harvest them.

I would get something up soon, and set it quite close to the peas if you
want them to climb. Wait too long, and you'll likely have a problem with
many of them not finding the fence.

Good luck,

S


"Barnet" wrote in message
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Hello all!

I have a question about peas, and stringing them up....

If you do not string them up, will they grow slower? Mine are now
only 3-4 inches tall and am wondering when to start to train them on
some sort of growing vine web.

Thanks!

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I have read that as soon as you see the little tendrils sticking out between
the leaves, you should have something in place for them to grab onto, or
they might not ever grab. I have the 2 foot chicken wire going right now,
and the peas are at the top of the fence, blooming and producing as I write.
If yours are only 3 inches high now, you are either in a very cold
climate, or you got them into the ground a bit late (they should be started
in March in most of the cold climate parts of the US - earlier in warmer
climates) . The problem is that they will begin to give out as soon as the
weather stays consistently hot.
When mine were about 3 inches, I took the spring pruning clippings from
my butterfly bushes (lots of 3-4 foot lengths), put them in the soil near
the peas like a picket fence, then braced the chicken wire in and around
them. So far it has worked pretty well. No slug holes in the peas yet.....

Subject: Training Peas???
Fr BRBR

You need high heels, a leather corset and a small whip to begin with...
zemedelec

Funny!


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Subject: Training Peas???
Fr BRBR

You need high heels, a leather corset and a small whip to begin with...
zemedelec

We live in Wisconsin, and we plant our vining peas inside woven wire
baskets with mesh around the bottom to keep the rabbits from eating
off the plants. We usually don't plant our peas until May when the
ground has started to warm up some. For the past eight years, we've
had good pea crops. The baskets are a couple of feet in diameter, and
we haven't had any problems with the peas "catching hold" and growing
upward.

LeAnn
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