Pea sticks

Can anyone help?  I have been trying to buy pea sticks (I live in Chichester) but can't find any within a 10 mile radius!!
Many thanks
Penny

Thank you very much for that.  I usually use bamboo canes (in the absence of sticks!) but much better the way you have strung them.

Try using the plastic fencing mesh. It can be bought by the metre and in several heights. It can be supported with canes or poles and netted over to deter the sky rats

Agreed - 'blobby' bean/pea netting is truly one of life's challenges you can do without! 

My peas are OK once they grow above the height the average wood pigeon can be bothered to reach, but others don't seem to be so lucky.......

Try using the plastic fencing mesh. It can be bought by the metre and in several heights. It can be supported with canes or poles and netted over to deter the sky rats

Bit restricted here in BG, you have to seek out German chains for a lot of stuff we took for granted in UK. We have sworn off the big city till we are totally stuck.

Luckily I have OH on hand all the time now to fight netting or build supports. The Bulgarians next door just let the plants do their own thing and harvest all at once to bottle.

I use the otherwise useless tops off my bamboo canes I harvest every year. Lots of nice and thin little spikes everywhere for those little tendrils.They get spiked in the ground and are perfect for much of the growing before the flowering stage, and are made for blowing in the wind. If and when the peas get too high and heavy, I then also hammer in the 2x1 timber and string a single line across the top. Between the two, they haven't blown down yet.