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[sonjab314]

This is only my second year ever planting a garden. I like planting cucumbers for pickles. Up to this point, I've always planted them in hills in the garden. My question is, can you plant these next to a chain link fence for support without tearing your fence up? If I did that then I could put something else where my cucumbers are and move them to the fence. Any suggestions welcome.

 

[ducks4you]

Absolutely.

 

[lesa]

Cukes aren't heavy like pumpkins. You can definitely plant them along a fence...If you are asking if you can transplant them now- I would say probably not. My cukes are coming to the end of their season here in zone 4. Can you plant them there next year- absolutely.

 

[bid]

Yes you can! No danger of tearing the fence up either. Just expect a couple hard to harvest cukes, as they will insist on forming in between the holes in the fence... not all, just a few

 

[sonjab314]

I just got my garden in the ground for this year. I had issues earlier in the year with flooding. I may try it anyway. You never know. I have some seeds.... :tools

 

[Whitewater]

Yep, my cukes are climbing my chain link right now, and have been for the last 4 weeks. Haven't harmed anything. My biggest issue is keeping them from growing THROUGH the links, though, but only because the chicken coop is right there and it's really not practical to grow the vines on both sides. If the coop wasn't there, I'd be all happy about it

I also put a string-and-bamboo trellis on top of the fence, rather optimistically, so that things could climb to about 7 feet instead of getting topped at the 4' of the fence. So far, only one pole bean vine has taken advantage of that height! But I suspect before they're done, the cucumbers will be up along the bamboo . . .we'll see, I guess.

I love my chain link fence, my total investment for trellising has been about $8 (I bought the bamboo and the trellis string at Home Depot, it's special string, able to stand up to veggies and weather!)


Whitewater