Growing Cucumbers

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Hi, I am David Epstein. This is Growing Wisdom. If you would love to grow some vegetables, let us say you want to grow cucumber and you think I do not have enough room or maybe you are live in the city. You can actually grow up, it is called vertical gardening and vertical gardening is really touching on in a lot of places. And what I have got here today are a couple of garden ages to really help me out. I have tomato gage and I have got this trellis and both are made of heavy wire and you could use this to grow beans. You could obviously use the tomato cage to grow tomatoes and put the tomatoes around them and let that grow up.

You can also be a little bit creative with this trellis so we are going to focus on that here today. And this particular trellis I use this to grow my peas you can see behind me we have got our peas growing up one of this. I am also going to use this to grow cucumbers because there are a couple of different types of cucumber. You have bush cucumber, which stays tight and compact but I like the vein cucumbers and they can run three, four, five, six, seven feet long over the course of the season.

Seven feet in this little garden will take up too much space but seven feet if I string it around one of these trellises would not. So notice here what I have do is I planted the cucumbers inside of the trellis, which I form into this, I never want to call this a square it is not a very sort of wrong void. When you plant you cucumber it is very often you want to put it about three to four feet apart but I place things a bit closer together here. We are only a couple of feet apart because we are focusing upward so much.

We artistically really nice over the next several weeks is the cucumbers grow up and we will train it so it does not grow into the garden. Now, behind me I have additional space so I could let the cucumber trail into that area as well and that another thing when you are planning gardens. Maybe you have an area that has some sun that is not landscape. You can let cucumbers, pumpkins, squash. I have pumpkins and squash growing behind me and do not just grow because I do not care about that area. It is the back drop of the garden, it is not well landscape and I use it that way. You have to be a little bit creative if you have small spaces and going vertical is one way to get the most out of a very small space.

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