Tying peas and sweet peas.

Hi all,

I have tied my peas an sweet peas to their supports when I planted them. Do I need to continue tying them or just let them sort themselves out?

Rusty

 

They should sort themselves out but you may need to encourage the odd one to follow the support but generally they grow naturally round the supports.

 

Depends on what you've used for supports really. So long as there's plenty for the tendrils to cling on to, they shouldn't need any more help from you.
By 'plenty to cling on to', I mean something like twiggy branches or netting of some kind which gives the plants plenty to grab hold of.
This would be better than, say, straight sticks or canes which don't really provide enough purchase for the plants.

 

I grow for multi flower on long stems. so I remove all sideshoots and tendrills. I grow them up strings and open the 'lay' of the string and pop a short bit of wire through there. I also tie a leaf 'stalk' and not the main stem after about 10 inches tall.

When they have reached to he top of the string, I open the wire and allow the sweet pea to fall to the ground then send it up a convenient string for another 7-8 foot run.



Cheers, Tony.

 

Whatever I'm growing up, whether individual canes, pea sticks, or mesh, I always poke some short twiggy bits (9 - 12" high silver birch twigs) to help them get off the ground and get climbing.