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Last year I supported my outdoor cucumbers using some plastic mesh with 2" squares. I made a cylinder and used bamboo canes to hold it upright. The cucumbers climbed well, except it wasn't tall enough and some of the cucumbers grew inside the tube and I couldn't reach them.
I've done a search to look for other ideas but none of them are within my limited diy skills or would cost more than I could hope to recoup in a cucumber crop. I have some smaller squared plastic mesh this year so wondered if this might be better? Would they climb bamboo canes, I'm thinking they are too smooth. What about a wigwam with string horizontally around. How tall do people make supports and what do you use? I'm growing Marketmore.
Ideas please!
I've done a search to look for other ideas but none of them are within my limited diy skills or would cost more than I could hope to recoup in a cucumber crop. I have some smaller squared plastic mesh this year so wondered if this might be better? Would they climb bamboo canes, I'm thinking they are too smooth. What about a wigwam with string horizontally around. How tall do people make supports and what do you use? I'm growing Marketmore.
Ideas please!
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