How to make a pea trellis
When the peas start poking their heads out of
the ground, it's time to hurry up and put in a trellis. Over the
past few years, we've explored a few different trellising techniques,
and I feel like we've finally settled on the best option.
Peas need to be rotated like most other crops --- I tried to grow them
in the same spot two seasons in a row and yields went way down.
So your trellis needs to be easy to assemble and disassemble ---
permanent posts in the ground are a pain in the butt.
I bought a bunch of light, three foot metal fence posts for about $2
apiece a few years ago, and they work great for my shorter, shelling
peas. Just pound them in the ground and string up the trellis
material (more on that in a minute) and you're good to go. Read more....
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About us: Anna Hess and Mark Hamilton spent over a decade living self-sufficiently in the mountains of Virginia before moving north to start over from scratch in the foothills of Ohio. They've experimented with permaculture, no-till gardening, trailersteading, home-based microbusinesses and much more, writing about their adventures in both blogs and books.
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Thanks --- that makes perfect sense! It sounds like a really good system too.
I'd love to make it so that other people can post pictures, but I doubt I'll try to figure that out until winter. The gardening locomotive is in full steam and it's hard to pull myself indoors!