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Peas
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Hi, has anyone grown garden peas up a wigwam structure and had success ? as space is limited I thought I may give this a go as I love peas !!
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Yes, it's perfectly fine to grow garden peas up a wigwam - the only difficulty is that because peas cling with tendrils rather than twine like a bean plant, they need more support so what I do is wind string around the wigwam in a spiral, starting at the bottom and going around each cane then on to the next one until I reach the top where I tie it off.
That way the peas have some lateral support for their tendrils to cling on to.
You may have to encourage the pea plants to cling to the support at the beginning, by tying them in, but they'll soon get the hang of it - enjoy
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
I've found that they don't need the height of the sort of wigwam I make for runner beans, so have used some left-over plastic-coated metal mesh/netting instead.
It's about a yard or so high - and was what I had left over when I got some to fix to my driveway gate. This was to stop the dogs getting out - and I wondered what to do with what was left over. I made it into a tube shape, pushed it (vertical) as far into the ground as I could & then used two or three lengths of bamboo (woven through it & then down into the soil) to act as reinforcing "struts". It worked very well ref peas - I could easily reach them both inside and outside the "tube", which is something you can't easily do with a wigwam shape.
LIGHTHEARTED COMMENT COMING UP.
Wigwams are round, it's teepees which are pointed ! I noted MD making the same error on GW on Friday.
I'm off back into Pedants' Corner now. xx
Suitably admonished!!!
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Carol Klein is one of many who use the term " rising to a crescendo " ( the crescendo IS the rising part, it should be " rising to a climax" " But I love Carol so let her off. tee hee.