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I've never grown cucumbers before and read that they are tricky things to grow, so when I planted the first one out I sowed an extra one as insurance. The trouble is, I can never bear to throw anything away. I was going to plant the extra one after the peas, but the peas are still in full flow and the cucumber had outgrown its pot and was threatening to climb everything in the vicinity. What to do?
This was my solution:
The original plant is in the square pot and the smaller plant is on the right. As I can hardly leave it to climb the leylandii hedge, I've put some string across the original support (made from bits of a blowaway greenhouse) and hopefully I will be able to train the plant towards the support.
The 4 tomato plants in front are also short of a home. I'm considering the following:
1. wait until the peas have finished.
2. dig up a few onions and replace with tomatoes - some of the onions have produced flower spikes and probably need using soon.
3. transplant into larger pots and wait for the onions to finish. Housing the larger pots could prove problematical.
I've also about 30 leeks to house somewhere, not to mention broccoli waiting in the wings and spring cabbage yet to sow...
What do you do when you run out of space?
This was my solution:
The original plant is in the square pot and the smaller plant is on the right. As I can hardly leave it to climb the leylandii hedge, I've put some string across the original support (made from bits of a blowaway greenhouse) and hopefully I will be able to train the plant towards the support.
The 4 tomato plants in front are also short of a home. I'm considering the following:
1. wait until the peas have finished.
2. dig up a few onions and replace with tomatoes - some of the onions have produced flower spikes and probably need using soon.
3. transplant into larger pots and wait for the onions to finish. Housing the larger pots could prove problematical.
I've also about 30 leeks to house somewhere, not to mention broccoli waiting in the wings and spring cabbage yet to sow...
What do you do when you run out of space?
Trees and bushes can tesselate quite nicely, as for the others I consider heights sizes and what growing conditions they will tolerate (even if not ideal) and the experiment to see what fits where. Several times this year I ran out of space, then shuffled pots round to create a new gap or three. 
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