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Re: peas and tomatoes

On one side of my garden, I have a 6 foot fence that I use to support the
peas and beans.  On the other side, I have a 4 foot fence that I used last
year to support peas and tomatoes.  The tomatoes were brandywines, and grew
faster than weeds (I ended up chopping off the tops when they were over 6
ft.), so they blocked out the light and I didn't get as many peas as I did
near the beans.  What you describe below sounds like it would work, if the
peas are on the outside of the tomatoes... I think you'd have to work very
carefully to get the tomatoes in there- could be tricky!

Sarah

At 12:40 PM 2/8/98 -0800, Ian Stoba and Laurie Mandigo-Stoba wrote:
>How about peas and tomatoes?  Has anyone tried starting their tomato
>transplants right in front of the peas so they can be trained up the
>trellis, and take advantage of the nitrogen fixing in the soil?  One of
>rodale's OG books makes a suggestion about peas on the outside of tomato
>cages, and putting the tomatos in later, but for the life of me, I just
>couldn't figure out how you'd get the tomato IN the cage with the peas
>growing all around it.  Maybe I'm being dense;)
>
>Laurie
>San Francisco, zone 9
>
>>I'd like to lend support to below-  I planted my peas early last year and
>>while they were still in the ground, I planted pole beans in 1st week of
>>June.  The beans and peas seemed perfectly content together, and when the
>>peas were done, I pulled them out, leaving the pole beans, which were about
>>6 inches high at the time, and just starting to find the trellis.
>>
>>Sarah
>>Medford, MA
>>
>
>
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