pea stakes

[willgrow]

Hi everyone can anyone give me some advice on what they use for pea stakes. If you use twiggy sticks what do you use? any info would be good. I have grown them the last couple of years up a row of netting.I do love peas!

[Two_Sheds]

I gave up on netting because it always got blown around and tangled. I can never find enough twiggy sticks either.

Now I use chicken wire pegged down with short bamboo canes

[zazen999]

I grow them in blocks, not rows - and put a cane at each corner, and enclose the box with string at 12 inch intervals.

[bravo2zero]

For twiggy pea sticks use hazel or birch,nice and ornamental for a few peas but they only stay good for a year or 2. For heavier sowings try chicken wire supported with canes every 4 or 5 feet, a lot more durable.

[Two_Sheds]

For twiggy pea sticks use hazel or birch

oh yeah, don't use fresh raspberry prunings (although I did get more rasps than peas)

[Florence Fennel]

I use a mixture of both chicken wire threaded with short canes, or twiggy sticks that I have to collect from a little copse at work.

[Kristen]

I've done similar with the prunings from the shrubs ... got a nice lot of Cornus plants one year!

[Flummery]

I use thick plastic netting fastened down with canes - but then I grow tall peas. For the shorter ones I like a variety called Markana which has loads of tendrils rather than leaves and they support each other (in theory - I still use canes and surround them with string!)

[pea weevil]

Last year I used chicken wire tied to a few stakes, everything was going well with the peas completely filling the wire, then one extremely windy night the whole thing blew over. Will probaly do the same this year but with a few more stakes.

[kentvegplot]

I use hazel twigs for short ones, for taller ones a piece of metal trellis with guy ropes to keep it up when the peas are at their heaviest!

[SarahStrawberry]

Outside in the garden we used chicken wire with a fence post at each end of the row.

In the polytunnel we grow the peas on the outside edge next to the plastic and tight string from one aluminium arches to the next. Last year's sugar snap peas did really well like this and we just added string every few inches as they grew.

[peachmonster]

Hazel twigs are pretty good.

If you have the space to grow your own hazel, you can also have them for free, whilst providing a good habitat for wildlife too!!

[Jono]

Last year I grew them in square or rectangle containers, in blocks, and put twigs in and around the seedlings as they come up. I arch them in to the middle. I just use anything I could find to hold them up. Have used old raspberry canes, twigs from old trees, bamboo canes.

[willgrow]

Thanks for the advise, would love to grow some tall peas but have trouble with pea moth so I have to keep them covered, what sort do you grow? I'm sure the little blighters work out each year how to get in the covering.

[willgrow]

Thanks for the tip, will try again this year.