Many gardeners ask, "Do cucumbers need a trellis?" While not required, if you want to maximize your gardening space and keep your cucumbers off the soil, grow your cucumber plant on a vertical support ...

Cucumbers grow on vines that can reach 6 to 8 feet long or more, taking up a lot of real estate in your garden. Fortunately, cucumber plants adapt well to growing vertically. We've pulled together a ...

Gardening can be a lot of work, but there are different growing techniques that gardeners can use to help save some work and their back! One of those techniques is using a trellis to grow vining crops ...

A trellis is a handy technique to manage crops in the garden. Vining crops like melons, winter squash and cucumbers have a natural prostrate growth habit that, left on their own, will sprawl and ...

While growing our small city garden, we’ve struggled with controlling cucumber vines. Then, my wife saw an arbor-like cucumber trellis she wanted me to make. The idea was to make it tall and sturdy so ...

Roger and Linda Brooks of Southwest Portland have come up with an ingenious trellis for growing cucumbers in a small space. Cucumbers are the one vegetable that really tastes and smells like summer.

Trellis cucumbers so they can climb. Start pruning when vines are 1 to 2 feet long and starting to produce suckers. Thin suckers and leaves as needed throughout the growing season to provide good air ...

Plant cucumbers outside after the last frost once the soil has warmed to 60°F to 70°F, which is generally late May to early June. Start cucumber seeds indoors 3 to 4 weeks before the last frost, and ...

Gardening can be a lot of work, but there are different growing techniques that gardeners can use to help save some work and their back! One of those techniques is using a trellis to grow vining crops ...

Proper spacing is important between plants and between rows. Cucumbers are prolific producers. A single cucumber plant can yield about 1 to 3 pounds of fruit per week, or a total of 20 to 25 pounds of ...

Trellising vining cucumbers with these tips helps you grow straighter cukes, keep plants healthier, and have easier harvests.