Cucumber Cages
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One of my cucumbers growing over a traditional metal tomato cage. (Photo by Charlotte Ekker Wiggins)
Cucumber Cages
The end of the growing season is a good time to pick up supplies for next year. One of my favorite items to get on sale are “tomato cages,” something I use for a variety of crops.
This year, my tomato cages easily turned into cucumber cages. This is my first year to grow cucumbers in my edible deck garden and one plant in particular escaped my attention. I planted it in an empty pot late in the season. This is a 55-day variety so it still had enough time to deliver cucumbers before our first hard frost mid to late October.
One of my cats likes to play with the cucumber leaves from the catnip pot. (Photo by Charlotte Ekker Wiggins)
By the time I found one of my cats entangled in the cucumber vine, the plant was not only well-established but needing support as it grows.
I was easily able to place a tomato cage close to the plant roots and then carefully wind the vines around each of the tomato cage sides. For next year I plan to use the larger tomato cage for cucumbers because of the weight of the ripe cucumbers.
And yes, I’ve harvested cucumbers from this pot and two other pots where I’ve been growing cucumbers. And the pot has been moved away from the catnip pot, where one of my young cats likes to nap.
