Today I set up a bean and pea tower and planted 1/4 of the way around the base with snow peas. It's just two galvanized hoops at either end of a six or seven foot pole with twine looped from base ring to top ring all around. Also planted 4 square feet of regular peas. Package says they grow to 24 inches tall and need no support. Used a packet of soil inoculant that's supposed to support legume growth. It's a mix of bacteria that supports something called "nitrogen fixing" in the soil. Do I need to understand this, or simply use it? Use it, I say - just like this computer I'm sitting at now. I don't understand it, but I use it!
In a seed tray inside I planted four broccoli, four basil, four nasturtium, and 20 dwarf marigolds. The nasturtiums will join the snow peas on the tower just about the time I plant the pole beans and one or two white cucumber vines - end of May. Just for fun, I stuck four tomato supports into the soil! I'm getting impatient.
