Should I give up on my peas?

I planted out my sugar snap peas 4 weeks ago and the wind got to most of them. Those which were left have barely grown at all since I planted them and are still about 8 inches high. Also I only have about 12 plants left. I'd tied lots of string between the canes for them to grip onto but they haven't, and I'd added lots of compost and blood and bone to the soil so I'm not sure where I went wrong, other than not protecting them enough from the wind.

Is it worth letting them continue? Or should I use the bed for something else? I have some sweetcorn ready to plant out.

Plant the sweetcorn out on this bed and allow the peas to climb them if they want to - the peas won't be in the way.

I wonder if you could consider pushing a few pea seeds into the soil while you are planting out? I dont think the pea boat has left the shore just yet (but not long to go).

Hi Yorkiegal,

Mine are exactly the same and you can't get much further South than me!  Any farther and my feet would be in the English Channel! 

Yorkie - but peas have tendrils that they use to cling onto structures with - like sweetcorn. Or just push a few twigs in around the sweetcorn and the peas will use them instead. I still think it is a plan.

No reason not to give it a try - but in my experience the tendrils need something proper to cling on to, which sweetcorn is not.