Basic gardening tips - Growing cucumbers on a support

Cucumbers are a must for any summer garden and are not too difficult to grow.  They like plenty of water and frequent liquid fertilizer in order to produce juicy delicious fruit.

I find that if you support them on a frame they will climb, which avoids fruit rotting on the ground when it gets very wet.

   

The pictures are of my daughter-in-law's cucumbers and she put in a support  2 weeks ago and they have gone crazy, tripling their size and starting to produce fruit.





Just goes to show a simple support can make all the difference and if  you don't have a black pug called Oscar you might get to eat some.

Check out the little tail below, Oscar is on his morning rounds looking for cucumbers in our garden.

Happy gardening

Bronwyn