Cukes and Zucchini Question
I've been looking up a lot of pictures on trellises for cukes and stuff, but they all look like big huge ramps that they grow up or a chicken wire fence. Seeing as I don't have any of that stuff lying around, but I do have lots of tomato cages, I was wondering if anyone has had success with those?
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My main cuke set up is a braided nylon netting (garden netting around $6-8) strung on a 5' picket fence -- they need to be trained/guided to go back and forth and weave between the pickets along the top rail when they get too tall. Another netting is strung on a 6' high bamboo cross piece secured to a pair of bamboo uprights. I also let them scramble up an arch arbor (6.5'h) but they need additional twine strung between the metal tubing arbor frame.
My feeling is tomato cages will work but may prove to be too short.
My feeling is tomato cages will work but may prove to be too short.