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Climbing Pea numbers

RussJRussJ Posts: 18
in Fruit & veg
Hello All,

We newbie veg gardeners. The kids and I have made a six leg wigwam for Alderman climbing Peas. As instructed over seeded and take the weak ones out. Almost every seed has sprouted. How many is okay to allow up each leg of the wigwam?

Thanks in advance for you help.

Rgds Russ.

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  • Sabina13Sabina13 Posts: 113
    I wouldn't thin out peas, they can grow quite crowded! However I am a new gardener, only in my second year so take from that what you will :smiley: 

    I am doing 4 or 5 plants per each stick of the wigwam. 
  • RussJRussJ Posts: 18
    Thank you Sabina, I post this morning and this afternoon the pigeons have rather taken some of the decisions out of my hands!
  • Nanny BeachNanny Beach Posts: 8,719
    The blighters!! I put in as many peas as I can, they hate hot dry weather, so I am not expecting a great yeald, and I already have 3 obelisks up, and more will be sowing soon.The canes, I would put string round and have plants next to each other.  The last few years I have grown Blauwschokker, old Dutch variety, literally means "blue bean", they have the most beautiful mauve flowers, dark purple pods, and a great yeald.I have a great relationsip with the pigeons here, funnily enough, everywhere we have lived we have had 3, (perhaps they are they same ones haha) I have caught sparrows eating my chard, but they dont take much.  Normally the birds eat the cherries, we have already picked 2 huge bowlsfull
  • nick615nick615 Posts: 1,487
    I'd endorse what Sabina said.  Nature doesn't allow spaces between seeds as they fall so, like runner beans, if they've got enough food to nourish them they'll hang on to each other.  Flowers always develop on the outsides of any clumps, i.e. where there's light, and they become your pods.  To improve your yield might I suggest you 'dib' some sort of hole in the centre of your canes, as deep as possible.  Drop/pour in some fertiliser of your choice and add a good amount of water to allow t to permeate around all the roots and get them all moving.
  • Nanny BeachNanny Beach Posts: 8,719
    I wouldnt feed until you get pods, you dont want thin new growth that the slugs will love.  Too late now, but normally you would be getting the ground ready for peas (or sweet peas), well in advance, manure, the ground the previous autumn, a lot of folk make a pea/bean trench  in spring,manure, or compost, they are very greedy plants, and they need a lot of watering.
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