String Trellis Enhancements

I don't know if it shows in this photo or not, but my sugar snap peas have required an enhancment to my string trellis. Click to see a larger version, where the enhancement does show.

We have had about ten days of rain, causing the sugar snap peas to grow up and over a string and head back down to earth. I think they were just getting beaten down and perhaps heavy from all the water. My english peas aren't doing this, but they're not as tall and their leaves aren't quite as large.

To help them out, I have tied an additional string between my nails at the current "sugar snap pea height" level. The sugar snap peas now have a string behind them as well as a string in front of them.

Since the rains have abated, the peas seem to be more inclined to grow upward. I was glad to see the rain - we were getting really dry here! But after ten days I'm pretty happy to see blue skies.