How to Build a Trellis for Sugar Snap Peas

Sugar snap peas have edible pods and are one of the types peas often found in Chinese food. They are crunchy, whether raw or cooked, with a sweet flavor. Like edible-podded snow peas, sugar snap peas grow best in the cooler weather of spring and fall, unless your summers are very mild. Most varieties of sugar snap pea are vining, climbing plants. Plan before planting them and include a trellis for their support. Privacy lattice is easy to install, is attractive and large enough to support trailing peas.

Measuring tape
Privacy lattice
Fence or building
Hammer
Nails
Nursery tape or fabric strips
Scissors

Instructions

- 1
  Plan your pea planting area next to a fence, house, garage or other structure. Then measure the length of the planting area to determine the number of privacy lattice panels needed.
- 2
  Attach privacy lattice panels to the fence or building by driving nails into the structure just inside the lattice’s four corners. Drive the nails into the wood about half way, and then place your lattice over them. Bending the nails over the lattice with a hammer holds it in place.
- 3
  Plant sugar snap seeds or seedling plants 6 to 8 inches away from the lattice. Refer to seed packet instructions to learn the correct planting distance for your seeds or baby pea plants.
- 4
  Train pea vines to climb the lattice when they are 4 to 6 inches long. Attaching them with nursery tape or strips of fabric rather than twine or other string prevents damaging or breaking the vines. After you have tied each plant at two or three places several inches apart as they grow up the trellis, they naturally cling to their support need no further tying.

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