[Market-farming] Trellising Cucumbers
breck
bcarden at breckinridgegroup.com
Fri Dec 26 08:36:00 EST 2008
Why can't one use stakes and twine (Florida Weave) for cucs, like tomatoes?
Farmer Breck
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[mailto:market-farming-bounces at lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf Of Leigh Mae
Friedline
Sent: Tuesday, December 23, 2008 5:11 PM
To: Market Farming
Subject: Re: [Market-farming] Trellising Cucumbers
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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