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Day 5: #grownostr initiative

Planted cucumbers with the intention of trellising them (it will be my first attempt). Any suggestions that worked well for you appreciated

I also got one of the two gates installed for my new goat pen and barn. We have a new Boer doe coming Monday so we have to get it ready to accept a 2 month old with our 1 year olds. We will be butchering one of our 2 year olds and breeding the other this fall. New to both of those endeavors. Again, any advice, very appreciated.

#gardening

#goats

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Discussion

Dan Wedge 2y ago

What variety of cukes?

DLDUB 2y ago

Burpless Hybrid, Straight Eight and Bush Pickle.

Swavy2k 2y ago

I trellis mine on cattle panels. I would never go back to untrellised!

DLDUB 2y ago

Do you just run the cattle panel straight up and down behind your plants?

Melody 2y ago

We enjoyed doing the arched walkway this past year. It worked really well. It was our first time but we were impressed. Definitely not going back to the non trellis way

DLDUB 2y ago

How tall was was your archway? Were you able to walk under it? What direction was it oriented? Opening to the North-South?

Slowslow 2y ago

Pick them daily to keep them producing

Pleb2Polymath 2y ago

Trellising: I have used a 16’ cattle panel arched over and planted on either side of the arch. That worked really well. I also have tried a net and put it up with fence posts. They grew fine there as well. Cucumbers are vining plants. You don’t have to know much, they do most of the work themselves.

IdahoPuma 2y ago

Cattle panels from tractor supply along with some bird netting. I’ve previously used wire welded fence, but not enough height.

DLDUB 2y ago

How high do you actually make the trellis? are you creating an arch or just a vertical panel behind the plants?