Hi folks can anyone help me out on this i am growing sweet peas and i am wanting to get mesh for the fence to support them do i cover all the fence panel in it or do i space the mesh out ?? i have 5 panels roughly 7 feet hi and 8 feet wide .
you need to buy pea netting and needs to be out from the fence .I grow mine in wigwam style or you can have them like a tent,the net sloping supported by four cane sticks.
Pea netting is good, but please be careful as ive seen many birds die in it! It needs to be very tight with no ruffles of it lying on the floor. Sorry to be a bore, but its so horrible to find a bird in it.
If you buy mesh, it dosent really matter if you space them or not, beechgrove garden did a trial on this last year or maybe the year before, you might be able to find it on youtube
You could even use wire and vine eyes attached to the fence, instead of mesh, not tried it myself, but it might make life easier, as you can add wires as and when you need them
Hi flowering Rose i might go down the pea net route but i have read it is a bit fiddly to work with as Bekkie mentioned wire i have read about it but can any one advise me if i space the wire out about 18 inches apart and attach it the fence with vine eyes will it work for sweet peas .
Sweet peas, and anything else for that matter have a habit of always being just the tiniest bit short of the support you want to tie them to! Are yo going to tie them in, or leave them to scramble?
If they are scrambling, you can put anything up and after a little help at the start, it wont really matter what support you use. If you want to tie them in, then i would go with the wires or a mesh you can easily get your fingers between/behind, i was thinking with the wires you could add them as and when you need them, and get it exactly at the height you need at that time
Hello Wills it sounds like you are gonna do what i'm gonna try and do. Its sound like you have the same number of fences as me. All i'm doing is when the sweet peas start growing i'm just going to tie them to the fences hopefully that should work .
I'll not use mesh because i have robins , sparrows and blue tits at the bottom of my allotment and like what Bekki says you could harm the birds.(pity mesh didn't work on snails and slugs )
Hi Bazza ive never attempted to grow them before but i have a few sitting in the green house cant wait to get them planted out and cover the boring brown fence that i see everyday . wish i had the same birds visiting the garden as you do all i have are magpies that chase everything off even the cats
Same here Wills never grown them before so i'm hoping like you it'll cover a lot of fencing .
As for the birds all i did was put a few feeders out and you'll be supprised at what birds they attract because they'll let other birds looking for food that you have it in your garden. You tend to find (I do anyway) that the bluetits pick at the seed in your feeder and the robins get the seed off the ground where its fallen its MINT to watch he he
Also in the summer months i watched swallows chase a kestral hawk away by attacking it in numbers
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you need to buy pea netting and needs to be out from the fence .I grow mine in wigwam style or you can have them like a tent,the net sloping supported by four cane sticks.
If you buy mesh, it dosent really matter if you space them or not, beechgrove garden did a trial on this last year or maybe the year before, you might be able to find it on youtube
You could even use wire and vine eyes attached to the fence, instead of mesh, not tried it myself, but it might make life easier, as you can add wires as and when you need them
Hi flowering Rose i might go down the pea net route but i have read it is a bit fiddly to work with
as Bekkie mentioned wire i have read about it but can any one advise me if i space the wire out about 18 inches apart and attach it the fence with vine eyes will it work for sweet peas .
If they are scrambling, you can put anything up and after a little help at the start, it wont really matter what support you use. If you want to tie them in, then i would go with the wires or a mesh you can easily get your fingers between/behind, i was thinking with the wires you could add them as and when you need them, and get it exactly at the height you need at that time
i like the idea of using wire i can clip the sweet peas to it using rings and as you say i can add wires when and i need them
Hello Wills it sounds like you are gonna do what i'm gonna try and do. Its sound like you have the same number of fences as me. All i'm doing is when the sweet peas start growing i'm just going to tie them to the fences hopefully that should work .
I'll not use mesh because i have robins , sparrows and blue tits at the bottom of my allotment and like what Bekki says you could harm the birds.(pity mesh didn't work on snails and slugs )
Hope this helps
Baz
Hi Bazza ive never attempted to grow them before but i have a few sitting in the green house cant wait to get them planted out and cover the boring brown fence that i see everyday . wish i had the same birds visiting the garden as you do all i have are magpies that chase everything off even the cats
Same here Wills never grown them before so i'm hoping like you it'll cover a lot of fencing .
As for the birds all i did was put a few feeders out and you'll be supprised at what birds they attract because they'll let other birds looking for food that you have it in your garden. You tend to find (I do anyway) that the bluetits pick at the seed in your feeder and the robins get the seed off the ground where its fallen its MINT to watch he he
Also in the summer months i watched swallows chase a kestral hawk away by attacking it in numbers