best size bamboo canes for broadbeans and peas?

[Le-y]

anyone know the best height?

My fil made a pretty nifty support system for some beans they had last year and said he will do the same for mine but i;m not sure how tall it needs to be!

[Le-y]

[Ian Pearson]

8ft for climbing beans. Peas don't twine round canes, so I use steel mesh for them (ht depends on ultimate hight of peas, but I like the tall ones, so use 7ft high mesh)

Also 8ft for toms (always the optimist!).

[asbean]

I've never used canes for broadies.  Plant them close enough together (I do them in groups of 3 about 20cm between groups) and they hold each other up.  Peas like mesh, chicken wire does the job.  :) :) :) :)

[Robert_Brenchley]

Depends which pea variety you have. Some of the old ones are supposed to reach ten feet! I've almost given up on short peas, and only grow a few for comparison. The crop is so much bigger from the tall varieties. Four foot poles would be more than enough for most of the current commercial ones, unless you're growing Alderman, one of my favourites, in which case you need six footers. Eight footers would do beans or the tallest peas, as long as you don't mind them flopping back down once they've reached the top. I did come across someone from the States who lashed two eight foot poles together for beans, but I'm not sure they'd withstand much of a gale.

Peas won't climb bamboo, so either tie netting to the poles, if you're using them, or string. I use wigwams with string spiralled round to give the tendrils something to grip.

[ipt8]

Broad beans usually stand OK but you can use a 3 or 4 foot set of canes with string around to keep them upright if you have to.
Most peas you buy now are about 3 to 4 feet tall, if that is what you have you want pea sticks, usually hazel is best. Just have a point on the bottom , shove them in the ground, point the pea tendrils in the right direction and they will do the rest.
Failing that for the peas just put two stout stakes , one at either end of the row, with a taught string or wire at the top height and buy a bean net for it, or use wire netting of whatever type  you can get. The peas will happily cling to it.
PEA STICKS WORK BEST  8)

[pro7fgf25]

broad beans

plant either in single or double rows.

plant approx 9in apart for tall varitieys in long straight rows.

as they grow place 3 - 4ft tall stakes of 2x2 timber either end of the row and one in the middle of the row.

as they grow every 12 - 18 inchs high tie string or twine around the stakes as the plant grows to support them from wind damage.

peas
use fencing wire square hole type the council or farmers use
support with posts each end and middle.

plant in long straight row along the fencing 2in deep approx 2 in apart either in zig zag pattern or double along the row for an prolific crop.

both crops love a fertile soil with manure added in autumn or winter.

peas - broad beans and runner beans love a bit of garden lime added approx 6 weeks before planting to lower the ph

two weeks before planting sprinkle fertiliser over site
if organic use blood fish and bone