Saturday 31 December 2011
Summer 2011
We had two sections again, with Dakota shelling peas on one side and Sugar Pod peas on the other side, and the moose came through and ate most of them down to the soil. However, there bottom remained, and sure enough, they came back enough to give us several bags of shelling peas to freeze. Next year the electric fence should keep the moose out and the peas robust.
Summer 2010
This year we divided the peas into two equal parts - snow peas and snap peas. Isa loves snap peas, so it's the least that I could do for her. I used the 10-by-25 foot nylon trellis strung between two upright poles. The trellis worked all right until the weight of the peas started pulling down the trellis. I was eventually forced to put in fence posts to hold it up. That's the kind of production we get out here with a 20-foot row.
The other problem was chickweed. I forgot to weed between the rows under the trellis, and after a while it was impossible to pull out the chickweed without pulling out the peas themselves. Eventually, I just had to let it go. Remind me not to let it go next year.
Summer 2009
Our first year with the snap peas, which worked fabulously. The lesson for this year had to do with frosts. We let a bunch of peas sit on the vine on the night of the first frost, and as a result lost a fair amount of peas.
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