pea sticks

[Hazel at the Hill]

I suggest some netlon-type net between a couple of posts.

Careful with the netting!!! That 'pea and bean' netting is the devil's own spawn, which you will realise in Autumn when you try to get the damn stuff down!!! So speaks the voice of experience!

Use twiggy sticks instead!

[HeyWayne]

I used rattan (I think that's what it was) on mine, when I took the canes out of the ground I just ran a knife along the canes and then threw the rattan on the compost heap.

[moggssue]

So would you use things like prunings from a shrub rose? Oh dear, maybe I ought to buy the proper things - I presume they'll last a good few years? I can imagine trying to untangle it all at the end of the year, never mind putting it out again next - I'm still raw from the christmas tree light experience! Is there any other advantage I've not thought of to the netting though?

[moggssue]

Sorry - meant to add, where do you get rattan from and is it expensive? My lottie has to be as cheap as possible I'm afraid!

[HeyWayne]

Sorry - meant to add, where do you get rattan from and is it expensive? My lottie has to be as cheap as possible I'm afraid!

Just picked mine up at a local garden centre, don't think it was particularly expensive. I need to get some more, so I'll let you know when I pick it up next.

[Hazel at the Hill]

I used this for my 'late' batch of peas - (after my psychological scarring experience with the pea and bean netting) which is a bit more robust.

[Flummery]

You can use chicken wire sort of stuff and then scorch off the tendrils when they've dried. Far easier than trying to unpick a bean net! I don't find twiggy sticks, either alone or with string, are enough to support the taller growing varieties.

[bramble]

I just take a walk in the forest, gather up the twigs that have fallen from the trees (long ones of course) and i use these.

[lainey lou]

I just take a walk in the forest, gather up the twigs that have fallen from the trees (long ones of course) and i use these.

Great idea bramble and a great excuse to force the kids out for some fresh air!

[moggssue]

Lots of great ideas, now I'm spoilt for choice!!

And Hazel - did you make the cloche behind the wire in your photo?

[shirlthegirl43]

I treated myself to a 6 foot length of the strong plastic netting with 2" square 'holes' you can get it 3 foot or 5 foot high. I didn't grow many peas so it was fine for me. Supported it by threading bamboo canes through and sticking those in the ground.

[veggieginger]

Careful with the netting!!! That 'pea and bean' netting is the devil's own spawn, which you will realise in Autumn when you try to get the damn stuff down!!! So speaks the voice of experience!

Use twiggy sticks instead!

We stapled our netting to the fence. When all peas had been picked, we left the plants to die. Once dead they came away from the netting very easily and the netting is in place for something else this year.
BTW, I use the "royal"we as this is veggieginger's husband posting.

[Bren In Pots]

My mistake last year was to use twigs off my Silver birch tree but once the peas grew the twigs weren't tall enough so I ended up sticking some canes in as well and it all ended up looking very messy.

[Hazel at the Hill]

And Hazel - did you make the cloche behind the wire in your photo?

Sort of, moggssue - the frame is from a rabbit run and I covered it in 'pond netting' from wilko. Better photo here...

It's brill - could do with about 6 more!

[Snadger]

Just go to the local Tennis club and nick there nets!