everyone in this little video you're gonna learn how to grow cucumbers vertically so cute cucumbers
our vine plants they have tendrils now if you look over here this is a tendril this plant
likes to climb many people grow cucumbers on the ground however they take up a ton of space they
don't grow uniform their bottoms become flat and they typically get dirty they're hard to
find when you grow them vertically they're easy to find and you can grow much more in a square
foot span this is probably a third of the bed maybe twelve fourteen square feet and I have
about twelve to fourteen cucumber plants the reason I can grow so much in a small amount of
space is because I'm going to be growing them all vertically so that there's really three key steps
to grow cucumbers vertically so the first step is building a structure now you don't need anything
fancy when I first started growing cucumbers vertically I had a very simple trellis now the
past few years I built a conduit frame on this bed and this conduit frame is easy to take down
in the fall and put back up in the spring and it's really nice because I can put all kinds of
strings from the frame as many strings as I want so what I do is I tied the tie the strings up at
the top I bring them down I have some fastened with screws into the bed and I have some strings
that are just coming down right onto the plant so the first step is to get a structure and you
don't anything fancy you can just use sticks and make an a-frame if you want to build a structure
you can check out the video down below in the description the second step is to start to train
the cucumber up the string so in this case I just tied it really loosely to the bottom of
the plant and then I started to train it up all you have to do is just put it around like that
and then I'll start to grow on its own once the tangibles come out now you can see this one over
here I didn't even do anything I started growing this plant about a foot away from the string and
it's already started to come over here and it's start to capture the string right here and here's
another tendril so once it gets a little closer I'll start to train it up here and I'll start
to grow up this string now you can grow probably 60 to 80 cucumbers per plant if you have enough
space enough vertical space now what I'm going to do is once this climbs to the top I'll start
sending them down down the edge I'll put more Springs I'm gonna trellis them all over here
and there's gonna be cucumbers just hanging down off of the structure I also have Tomatoes and I'm
gonna use this trellis too I've got some caged and I'm also gonna start to support some with
strings some of the tomatoes first step get your structure second step train them up the structure
up the string now the third step is really let them grow and you can start to prune the lower
leaves I like to prune the lower leaves because it allows more air flow through this bed so since
I'm growing very tightly here I want to keep a lot of airflow if you don't have a lot of airflow and
you have a lot of humid days that can actually promote disease if the leaves are always wet
and they don't have a lot of airflow so I'll cut the lower leaves I don't want really any leaves
touching the ground and then these will start to go vertically that's really it that's really the
key three steps so if you have any question and I'll be happy happy to answer thanks for
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