Kitchen Garden

MAKE A SWEET PEA TEPEE!

GET GROWING SWEET PEA TEPEE

One of the earliest big projects I remember completing on my first allotment was a sweet pea tepee in preparation for the arrival of my twin nephews. I'd seen something similar grown with sunflowers on Pinterest and spent a few days working out how best to create the structure, with a vision of dreamy pastel flowers climbing up a simple structure and adding colour to the veg plot.

Four years on and I still recreate the tepee each and every year with a slight twist. It's one of those creative ideas that is so easy to

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