Do I need to make a climbing "thing" (sorry) for my sugar snap peas? They are starting to get about the size of a pencil maybe a little bit bigger, and there my babies..lol. I just want them to grow healthy! Any suggestions?
2007-03-05 11:36:43 · 4 answers · asked by Chetney W 3 in Home & Garden ➔ Garden & Landscape
Do you still have the package the seeds came in? If it says bush peas you do not need anything for them to grow on--they grow in a bush shape and do not vine. If it doesn't say "Bush" on the package or you don't have it then to be safe I would assume they are the vineing kind and need something to grow on. The earlier suggestions are OK but they don't have much give and the vines can break when picking them. I'd go to your favorite L&G Center and get some netting (it comes in plastic and nylon--both work great). You can pound some stakes in the ground and attach the netting to the stakes like a tent. Peas and beans love them and will cover them.
My other suggestion would be to fertilize regularly with Miracle-Grow (if you like liquid fertilizers) or Espoma Plant*Tone if you like a good granular organic fertilizer. Peas use a lot of nitrogen and therefore need fertilized regularly--just don't go overboard and burn them.
2007-03-05 15:04:13 · answer #1 · answered by college kid 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The word you're looking for is "lattice" or "trellis."
And yes, sugar snap peas generally need something to climb.
If you get a regular wooden trellis and stick it in the ground, that will help, but I've found that when the sprouts are young, they have trouble grabbing onto anything with too-wide a spacing or too thick a post or cross post.
So what I've done is bought bird netting (which comes in big pieces so you can cover bushes and plants to try and keep the birds off) and cut, then tied a piece the netting to the first foot or maybe 18" of the trellis. You need to tack it down a fair bit, so they don't pull it down. And once they get big enough, they can wrap themselves around just about anything, so they don't need the fine netting any higher up.
2007-03-05 16:34:24 · answer #2 · answered by kjcedits 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
All great suggestions. Another thing I have done is to drive a few bamboo posts into the ground (bought mine at Home Depot) and then I run twine around and between the posts. Beans and peas love it and it's super cheap.
2007-03-06 02:45:01 · answer #3 · answered by retropink 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Best is about a 5ft tall fence, cheapest is some chicken wire
2007-03-05 11:43:56 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋