Arlene,
>> They are miserable to try and do any vertical fencing.
I'm glad it's not just me. "Defeated by the mechanical complexity of a short piece of wire" would be so embarrassing. I'll look for those plastic snap-on things if I decide I have to use the other two that I bought.
For now I have two rigid cross-pieces lashed on with waxed twine, as a good Boy Scout should. I wish I had made the lower bar even lower, since the snap peas did not easily grab it. (That's why I ran a few strands of floppy wire belwo it, to give the vines a hand up.)
After they grabbed the first cross bar, they looked like they could stand upright forever, but JUST before they touched the top bar, they folded over the bottom bar and I had to drag them up with some jute twine. I should have given them several left-and-right or up-and-down zig-zags of twine.
It was my first time with snap peas. Usually I just grew short bush snow peas, which need at most 1-2 strings running horizontally to keep them off the soil.
