[Market-farming] Trellising Cucumbers

Leigh Mae Friedline DarlingHillCommunityFarm at verizon.net
Tue Dec 23 17:11:28 EST 2008


Hi,
We have been growing cukes (slicers, pickling and japanese) on  
trellis for a few years with good results.

We thin to a 6 inch spacing, set 6', 1"x1" wooden grade stakes about  
a foot into the ground.  The stakes are pre-drilled with a through  
hole at about a foot and a half from the bottom (winds up 1/2 foot  
above soil once the stakes are set), and at the top.  We then thread  
1/8" steel cable through the top and bottom holes, the top cable gets  
cable clamped to shorter stakes driven down into ground on the row  
ends.  Then we go through and tie vertical line made out of sisal at  
six inch spacing and train each runner to the vertical.  Our row  
length is 80 to 100 feet.  At the end of the season the verticals and  
the vines cut of the cables fairly easily and we can compost the  
whole lot.  The stakes last mostly 2 years, the cable and clamps  
longer.  The cost of consumables (sisal) is cheaper than the plastic  
disposable mesh but the labor makes it about equal.  We do it mostly  
because it is compostable and we don't have to burn or rip off vines  
from more permanent wire (livestock panels).  It also looks pretty.   
We were inspired by a photo in a seed catalog.  We have used it with  
a tighter spacing for pole beans.

hope this helps

Zebadiah and Leigh Mae Co-Farmers
Darling Hill Community Farm
Southern NH, Zone 6

On Dec 23, 2008, at 11:03 AM, Bill Bradshaw wrote:

> Allan, we grow the pickling cuck (eureka) it has the dia x length  
> we like. Bill in Texas
>
>> what varieties are we talking about here? The one's I grow like
>> trellis about 12 'long' ("long' because they run up the arch of my
>> greenhouse that far but the fruit hangs down for easy picking. I use
>> DEVA and a couple of others from Johnny/s I don't like the bush
>> cukes. Allan in WV
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