"Antipodean Bucket Farmer" wrote in message
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Hi, Everybody,

Springtime here, and I just put in some cucumber
seedlings into 10-litre (2 and a half gal) buckets.
Any suggestions on leaving them to wander on the
surface, or supporting them?

One stake in the centre (tied with string), or three
stakes around the edge, in a tripod form, with strings
going between?

Thanks in advance!

Up is best. Tie or train to canes/mesh/whatever. If allowed to sprawl all
over the ground the plant will take up way too much space, the cucumbers
will be more accessible to slugs etc, and the cucumbers will have yellow
areas where the sun hasn't got to them.

Don't ask how I know :-))

Steve