Ideas for Sweet Pea supports?

I have loads of Sweet Peas this year and in wondered if anyone had ideas for supports? Any novel ideas?

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In what designs? Wigwams? Obelisks? Etc

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Well I presume your SP's will be growing over 6 feet ( 1.83 metres if you are under 50 ) so I think a Wigwam . A very tall obelisk could look odd . I grow mine up a fence on horizontal wires .

 

Heres novel.. Borrow the clothes airer thingy in the garden .You kno w the one that pops up and spins around.Obviously stop it spinning first.

 

I made a spiders web between a bamboo cane framework for growing edible peas - don't see why the same principle couldn't be done with sweet peas.

Here's how mine turned out: -

The bare web


And covered with peas



Well, you did say novel

 

That's great - I love it x

 

Thank you, Lynda and those peas ... were very tasty *nom-nom-nom*
The year before that I had heard of growing veggies alongside flowers in the border, "Great!", I thought. So, off I went and planted my peas in the border Probably would have turned out ok if ...





... I hadn't planted them beside the sweet peas
Hence that year, they had their own bed and spider web to keep them tamed

 

Are you growing for exhibition or just cut flowers,if for cut flowers I grow mine up the mesh you can get to grow runner beans up it's about 2mts high,just make a frame out of 8ft cane and fasten your mesh to them.If you grow for exhibition that is a complete different game, if you are wanting to show I would be pleased to advise you on what to do.

 

wowee M the spider web looks fantastic!

 

"M" you're a genius....that looks fantastic!

 

Pea sticks. Cut some good bare, twiggy branches about 4 to 5ft long. If you have any in your garden, or growing nearby and you can cut them with the owners permission - dogwood, elm or hazel are ideal.

Then simply stick them firmly in the ground around your sweet peas when you've planted them out and they will happily scramble up the pea sticks.