[Market-farming] Cucumber trellises that work?
BillOhio
billohio at gmail.com
Tue Jan 29 22:28:02 EST 2008
I cut strips of cattle panels with 2 or 3 horizontal stays each and hang
them from 3 T-posts, then drop twine to the plants and help them climb. That
way I get 4-5 trellises from each panel. Thanks to a question last year, I
think from Allen, I tried pinching the vines every 18" or so to stimulate
more side shoots, and that seemed to work pretty well. I've got to keep
setting out cukes tho, as we still haven't figured out how to get long-term
production other than in a high tunnel. Some pics here, sorry about the lack
of organization--the albums look about like my garden usually does:
http://picasaweb.google.com/BillOhio
Bill Huhman
Central Ohio, where it's 54 now with 50 mph winds and severe thunderstorm
warnings, headed for 19 by morning with snow
On Jan 29, 2008 9:42 PM, Catherine S <farmerwantabe at hotmail.com> wrote:
> I have used Livestock panels for several years with good result ONLY IF
> you almost daily help the vines climb, once started they seem to follow each
> other, it just comes natural now when I'm in the garden to stuff vines in as
> I walk by. I like fellenz using ag-clips, I might try that this year, I tend
> to break several off during the season and would think the ag-clips might
> help with that. I grow Armenian.
> Catherine
> Flying S Farms
> Woodbury TN
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> > Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2008 19:49:15 -0500
> > From: fellenz at fltg.net
> > To: market-farming at lists.ibiblio.org
> > Subject: Re: [Market-farming] Cucumber trellises that work?
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> > I use t-posts and roll fencing. I've done this for two years and had
> > poor results one year and good results last year. The biggest
> > difference was that the first year I relied on the plants to vine up the
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> > fencing on their own, but last year I used an ag-clip to tie the vine on
>
> > the fence to get it started in climbing. Quality of the cukes went way
> > up compared to cukes grown on straw mulch on the ground. They were much
> > straighter and looked real good. My Suyo Long cukes did especially
> > well on the fence.
> >
> > Andy
> >
> > Glen Eco Farm wrote:
> > > I have never had any real success with getting cucumber vines to climb
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> > > vertical trellises. I generally allow cucumber vines to sprawl and
> they
> > > usually do OK with the exception that a lot get missed by my PYO
> customers.
> > >
> > >
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