When it comes to growing vegetables that require a trellis for
support, everyone seems to have a favourite method for each crop.
As a relatively new gardener, I am still in
the experimental stage of trying to find the method(s) that work best for me.
The first year I grew beans and peas, I used sturdy plastic
netting that had large, 5” gaps. It
worked really well at supporting the legumes, but then came the end of the
season. Of course, I didn’t want to
throw out the netting as it was still perfectly good, with years of use ahead
of it, so I spent a few hours (that’s right – hours!) untangling & cutting the
vines from the netting.
When I set up the trellis for my peas a couple of months
ago, I had a different plan. Jute. Since jute is a natural fibre,
I figured that I could simply cut it off the trellis and throw everything into the compost pile at the end of the season.