Does anyone else get cross with peas?

[OhYouBadBadPig]

Why every year, no matter what support I put up for them do my peas completely ignore the supports and instead sprawl across the ground ensnaring innocent weeds in their tendrils? Every year I have to go out and try and persuade them to climb upwards.

silly plants.

[GentleOtter]

OhYouBadBadPeas

Try some old bits of larch or pine sticks to get them going in the right direction ish.

[OhYouBadBadPig]

lolol at 'OhYouBadBadPeas'

So do I beat them with the sticks then? (a bit of good old fashioned discipline might work wonders)

I sat there for half an hour this afternoon gently untangling tendrils and trying to coax them around netting.

[dustbuster]

I am cross with my sweet peas because they are not growing. I bought them as little plants and since I transferred them they are just sitting there on strike. Do you think it's because it is quite cold?

[OhYouBadBadPig]

It could be cos its quite cold or maybe its a bit dry. Or, more likely I expect they are entering puberty and are therefore sulking.

[mollyroger]

Good pea emoticon, don't you think?
So, you're saying you have escapeas......

I get cross because the fecking pigeons eat all my seedlings just as they break the soil surface. I swear, the pigeons sit their laughing, as I construst flags, cds on strings, scarecrows etc

[mileniwmffalcon]

no i get cross with the snails

two years running i've tried to grow pea plants, 2 years running the snails have had em

at your p(ea)redicament

[dustbuster]

I am sure you are right about pea adolesence, OYBBP, I think I will have to a-peas them.

[OhYouBadBadPig]

at all the replies!