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How to trellis in SFG
I planted 8 square feet of sugar snap peas, 8 to a square. My garden beds have plywood on the bottom with holes drilled for drainage. I had to do this because our yard isn't level, so we had to level it out by sticking bricks and rocks under the plywood in spots.
Since I can't stick something into the ground due to the plywood, how should I trellis the peas? I'm thinking I could connect something to the wooden frame at each side - maybe just a piece of wood. Could I then tie pieces of twine up the wood, about an inch or two apart? Any better ideas?
Re: How to trellis in SFG
I am using small garden fencing stuck in the soil within the SFG, it is about 2ft tall, not sure if it will be tall enough but we'll see!
Gretchen Evie, born 7/8/2012 at 35w5d
Last year, I put one post in each corner (we have corner brackets with openings but you could attach it to the inside/outside) and then had a post as a cross beam and attached the netting to it. If you go this route - string the netting on the side posts before you put them up - I just wove it in and out. For posts, I used the green garden posts from Home Depot. They're some type of metal on the inside but have a green plastic coating on the outside with ridges to help hold your netting in place and prevent rust. We just used rope to lash the cross beam to the uprights.
The problem with that method is that it forced me to put all of my climbers in the back of the bed.
So this year, I ordered the Expandable Pea Fence from Gardener's Supply. It's like a tomato cage opened up. My beds are 12" tall, but only had about 6" of soil last year and the cages stood up fine so I think this will too. With the pea fence, I plan to tie something to the ends to help stabilize it in case of high winds.
http://www.gardeners.com/Vegetable-Supports/VegetableGardening_Supports,default,sc.html
ETA: These are the stakes I used from Home Depot: http://www.homedepot.com/h_d1/N-5yc1v/R-100159141/h_d2/ProductDisplay?langId=-1&storeId=10051&catalogId=10053
And here's the netting: http://www.homedepot.com/h_d1/N-5yc1v/R-100662500/h_d2/ProductDisplay?langId=-1&storeId=10051&catalogId=10053