[Market-farming] Cucumbers
Pam Twin Oaks
pam at twinoaks.org
Tue Dec 23 13:19:39 EST 2008
Bill Bradshaw wrote:
> Need some input on growing cucumbers on trellis. We grow pickling
> cucumbers about .5 acre per planting. Labor cost for harvest is
> getting real costly, I thought maybe we could pick faster and have
> cleaner fruit if trellised. What is your ideas.? Thanks Bill
Putting up a trellis takes time and money. Does the length of your
harvest period for those vines justify it? What about biodegradeable
plastic mulch? Clean cucumbers, earlier crop, nothing to remove after
the crop, just till in the vines and remains of the biomulch. Some
initial work laying the biomulch, and the crew still has to stoop to
harvest (unless you have those clever harvest carts where the crew sit
or lie down).
Pam Dawling, Twin Oaks, central Virginia (9F last night)
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