Bamboo Pea Frame

 What do you make a frame out of to grow vine peas on?? Why Bamboo of course...especially if you have a supply growing right there on the farm!!!! I have been trying to figure out what kind of frame I would need for my climbing peas, and I had a chat with David about this...we both thought of the bamboo...I tired to describe how I wanted it, but opted for drawing a picture...you don't want to see my drawing...but it all turned out perfect anyway!!!!

 Here are some of the bamboo poles as we were clipping all the side shoots off of them to make poles that we could tie together.

This is one of the last to get clipped down to a bare pole...hmmm...I wonder what we should do with the clippings....????

 

 So here is the start of the frame...pretty basic...David did screw it onto the raised bed, so it will be super sturdy...then i tied jute around each place that the poles came together at...

We ran the jute twine from one pole up over the center pole and tied it off on the opposite side...there will be plenty of peas coming up and hopefully the little tendrils will grab onto the twine and reach for the sky.

 

I like these pea planting pictures...they look so straight and hopefully they will germinate and produce tons of yummy snap peas!

 Here it is....the finished product...While I planted, David worked on digging up blackberry roots that have invaded the grapes...not sure if we can keep up with them, I dug up several around the fruit trees yesterday...they are sooooo invasive!

 Here is the Rhubarb plant that I thought died last year...it looks really good doesn't it? and next to it is some asparagus coming up out of the ground...tomorrow I need to plant spinach under the 'pea teepee'...it will come up fast, and we can enjoy fresh spinach, then some peas after that!

Raised beds...the first three,off in the distance are home to Strawberry plants.  There are some blooms on them already, so I'm expecting some nice early strawberries this year.