Peas Grow

Apparently my father is a wise old man with more knowledge about farming than I gave him credit for. I tried trellising the peas. It was about 10 at night and I was doing it with Adam the Giant who had his own ideas on how to pound trellis stakes and wake up the whole neighborhood. (Trellising by flashlight.) Now we know why the pioneers got up early, there were no flashlights to save their pea crops.

The next day I admit when I looked at the one row of trellised peas I managed to do in the dark, there were some serious design flaws*. However I refuse to waste my time by redoing it. The peas were going to have to deal with it. Pa Pitts interviend on behalf of the pea plants and trellised them using a W shape strung between the industrial sized metal stakes with twine instead of a z shape that I decided on. The peas are not going to turn into a pea bramble bush. It did get me thinking about the father of genetics, Gregor Mendel, I wonder how he trellised his peas.

One crop is saved. We only need to reclaim the rest of the garden from weeds, vermin, and drought.

(*I would like to mention that had I had the forethought to plant the peas against the garden fence they would have naturally trellised themselves like the morning glories have done and I would have saved a lot of time and effort, and now I have to do demolition on the morning glories.)

((Upon noting this to my father about the peas and the fence he reminded me that we planted pole beans along the fence. the lack of pole beans and the presence of morning glories leads me to believe that the pole beans met their demise in this particular episode of Weed versus Seed.))