[Market-farming] Cucumbers

Garth & Kim Travis gartht at txcyber.com
Tue Dec 23 21:51:07 EST 2008


Greetings,
I am in hot, humid Texas, about 125 miles from the Gulf and we have no 
problems with using the remesh.  As the plants grow in, my remesh is 
protected from the sun by the leaves of the vines and we have no 
problems at all.  Temperatures around 100 are our summer norm.  We do 
encourage the plants to grow through and all over the mesh, with fairly 
dense plantings.  I have much better yields with the remesh as a trellis 
than I have ever had on the ground.
Bright Blessings,
Kim

Kate Halstead wrote:
> I tried cukes with circles of remesh and even though we're in an area where
> 75-80 is a rare heat-wave, it appeared that when the tendrils went to grab
> the metal, they got too hot and seemed burnt. Can't imagine how it would
> work for folks in places that actually experience summer. Only way I could
> get it to work (sorta) was by weaving the entire plant through the mesh
> squares. Yields were way reduced and the plants just survived.
>
> I've gone back to a heavy mulch of alfalfa. Keeps the cukes clean and
> disease is usually not an issue. Picking is still a 'discovery expedition'.
>
> Kate
> Puget Sound
>
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