Boy, the bean rows are really looking nice. If you look to the left you can see one of the cucumber fences we put up last night. My dear Amish raised husband is sooooo....can I say soooo resourceful when it comes to taking nothing and making something. He cut the strips and brought the in-the-scrap-barrel at work string cones home...we created a spider type of webbing from the top to the bottom about 5-6 inches apart where the cucumbers will attach themselves.
By summer's end you will not even see the string because it will be covered with cucumbers!! I love walking those rows with my basket in hand finding tiny treasures to snap between my teeth...oh, the rest will put into jars for dill pickles! I will share more pictures as we go......ah, grow!
By summer's end you will not even see the string because it will be covered with cucumbers!! I love walking those rows with my basket in hand finding tiny treasures to snap between my teeth...oh, the rest will put into jars for dill pickles! I will share more pictures as we go......ah, grow!
3 comments:
Really, your husband was raised Amish. We've become very close with the Amish family we get milk from and the are very dear and very industrious!
Our cucumbers are getting ready to climb as well and we've nothing like what your husband put up, next year though I will give that a try!!
Big sigh...my cucumber plants are only 3" high. No where near climbing anything let alone a fence. :) Glad I have your garden to watch while my is still sprouting.
Thank you for the glimpse of your beautiful vegetable garden. I'm just learning to garden, this is my first year to have a vegetable garden, and I'm quite excited! I didn't know that cucumbers need to climb, back home my parents (and everyone else) just left them run on the ground. Do they have to climb to produce more? Or is it for ease of picking? Or do you have them climb for space considerations? Thanks for bearing with my questions, I enjoyed seeing your garden very much!
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