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THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 



April, 1911 



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Temporary Trellises for Peas 



A LL peas, except the extreme dwarfs, which 

 ^"*- are planted more as interesting experi- 

 ments than for their yield, should have sup- 

 port. There are three good reasons for this 

 — the benefit of the crop, convenience in 

 picking, and the appearance of the garden. 

 Brush, on which the old-fashioned gardener 

 depended, does fairly well, but it is frequently 

 difficult, and sometimes impossible, for the back- 

 yard gardener to obtain. One pretty good make- 

 shift is to drive a stake about every five feet 

 along the row and run horizontal lines of jute 

 twine about six or eight inches apart to the re- 

 quired height. Nothing does the work better than 

 a permanent trellis of wire netting, but it is in the 

 way after the peas have been harvested, and the 

 vines removed, and generally interferes with the 

 adaptability of garden planning and the shifting 

 of the planting from year to year to effect, on a 

 small scale, some sort of rotation. 



This then brings us to a demand for a tempor- 

 ary trellis that will serve the purpose as well as a 

 permanent one, will have a neat appearance, and 

 can be removed when it is not needed. This is 

 readily made of four strips, an inch or an inch 

 and a quarter square, put together with corner- 

 irons, placed inside the corners of the frame. See 

 that the screw-holes are reamed for inside corners. 

 After the frame is made it is covered with wire 

 netting. Poultry netting will do, but a light 

 wire fencing with meshes three or four inches 

 square is better as the pea vines are more easily 

 removed from it. For trellises seven by three 

 feet, inch square strips with four inch corner irons 

 are sufficient, but for larger trellises — eight by 

 four feet or taller — inch and a quarter strips with 

 six inch corner irons are better. For convenience 

 in handling eight feet is about as long as the trel- 

 lises should be made, and it is well to adapt them 

 so that two or three or more will equal the length 

 of your established garden rows. Cypress or 

 poplar is the best wood to use as it is light to 

 handle and stands the weather well, and if it is 

 undressed it will readily take a creosote shingle 

 stain which may be obtained in any color desired. 

 After the peas, planted in two lines six or eight 

 inches apart, have shown distinctly above ground, 

 but before there is much root growth to be dis- 

 turbed, drive a stake — an old broomstick is ex- 

 cellent for the purpose — between the lines at the 

 end of the row. Set the trellis up against it and 

 tie it firmly top and bottom. Drive another 

 stake at the other end of the trellis, set up another 

 trellis and tie the two top and bottom to the stake, 

 and so on to the end of the row. After the peas 

 are gathered, the vines may be pulled off the trel- 

 lis, the stakes drawn, and the trellis stored away 

 for future use, and the row is clear for the immedi- 

 ate planting of a succession crop. Stacked up- 

 right flat against a wall a good many of these trel- 

 lises can be carried between seasons in a compar- 

 atively small space, and with this kind of care 

 they will last for years. — Hortulus. 



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