The trellising we use is galvanised square mesh with star pickets holding it up. Each one is about 1.8m tall and 1.2m wide, stacked about 30cm apart. I hope enough sunlight gets in between. We used these trellises for tomatoes last year and they are awesome.
The paper pots make transplanting obsolete. You can plant the whole pot and plant straight in the ground.
The variety of pea is Greenfeast. We are definitely hoping for a feast of green peas from this lot, 30 odd plants.
These peas lined up for battle remind me of the theme song to the Imperial Stormtroopers.
And here for fun is some floppy disk drives playing that theme.
Your peas look lots tidier than ours. I had "help" planting though and I'm not sure how I'm going to trellis for handfuls of peas thrown into the dirt. Heh.
ReplyDeleteDon't worry Veronica about where peas are planted. To supply the frozen pea market, peas are grown in massive fields, a few cm's apart, with out trellising. They are then harvested by massive vacuum cleaner harvesters. The only thing you need to look out for is powdery mildew. Use Sulphur spray every 2 - 3 weeks when they are a bit bigger at a rate of around 5g/L.
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