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Old 30-01-2003, 04:53 PM
Pat Meadows
 
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Default Cucumbers grown vertically

On Thu, 30 Jan 2003 14:02:53 GMT, "Andy N"
wrote:

I am moving my garden into considerably less space and would like to
continue growing 2 hills of cucumber plants. My plan is to raise them
vertically to conserve space. I would appreciate advice about ways of doing
this. Thanks


What we do is just to make a circle out of welded-wire
fencing (this is also sometimes called 'woven wire' fencing)
- you can hook the fencing to itself, if you know what I
mean. This isn't chicken-wire, but heavier fencing.

Then we plant the cukes around the outside of the circle of
fencing, and they grow up it. This works pretty well.

A few cukes will get stuck inside the fencing and you can't
get them out, but the method is so cheap and so easy to do
that I think it's worth losing a few cukes.

Pat
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