built a trellis
The cucumbers are growing and I’ve seen them sending out their first little climbing tendriles, so I knew it was way past time to try to build a trellis. I was thinking of using a tomato teepee style cage set upside down, but they seemed too big for my pot. I also wanted to thin the cucumber plants, but when I tried to dig in, there were WAY too many roots already. So, I decided to work with what I had.
I have 5 plants in the pot, so I took 5 bamboo stakes and stuck them around the edge of the pot, then tied them together up at the top to for a sort of teepee. I then worked at getting the plants each on their own stake. One plant I was able to wrap a tendrile around the stake and another the plant is lying along the stake, so I figure those are good. Two others I loosely tied to the stake and hope the tendriles do their thing and latch on to the stake soon.
I’m sure I have way too many plants in the pot, but I’m hoping I get some sort of harvest.
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Iechris's Cucumber 'Lemon' progress journal
This entry is about Iechris's Cucumber 'Lemon' that
is currently in the Vegetable garden garden.
Greenville, SC, United States
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Cricketk wrote:
Nifty. That does seem like a lot of cucumbers for one pot, but hopefully they’ll play nice.
I saw a gardening program once where the lady trained her cucumbers to grow up and then across, so the fruit hung down just overhead. Nice straight cucumbers that were very easy to pick.
Posted on 18 Jun 08 (about 7 months ago)