We will not trellis our cucumbers again! Why?
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- Опубликовано: 19 окт 2024
- When Trulis and cucumbers there are many things to take into consideration. Where are you gonna plant. Is there high winds. What about Sun scorch? Walk with us as we have determined to not trellis our cucumbers and the reasons why. We are trying to be proactive and guide you on the best possible growing environment for your vegetables. Follow along with us and subscribe.
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Very informative video thanks for sharing with us and God bless you and your Amen 🙏
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Early last year I think one of your viewers suggested I get a jiggler for my canner to replace the weights I had and I don't Remember her name but thank you again it has made canning so much easier on this old woman
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I think you are onto something. I noticed a couple of farmers don't trellis anything. Even in Italy, they do not trellis. They grow their tomatoes on the ground ,and many not in gardens!!! I noticed one Nonna, grew hers in the yard on the grass. 🤔🤔They had enough tomatoes to can for the entire family. Ms Jill- I beginning to think we make things harder, than they need to be!
My spring crop ( and many others in our area) failed, because March winds. They started in Feb and stopped in April. We had 10- to 20 MPH winds every day, and I noticed everything went downhill from there. I'm going to put beans in with my corn, but, everything else, I had already decided not to trellis. Watch the veggie boys- they do not trellis anything. Yes, they are a huge farm. But, they get massive harvests.
Hi KP, we do watch the veggie boys and no they do not trellis anything, the Lord knows best and all that we try to make it easier by trellising things up so we can pick it or see it better it’s probably not the best way to go. We are learning as we go and we wanna share what we learn to help all of our subscribers. The searing heat in Texas does not promote trellising any of your veggies. Caveat is if you have a windbreak and Shay then yes you might have a good shot but otherwise no way Jose. Many blessings we love you Jill
@@ntxg central Florida here...it's currently 102 heat index and 75% humidity. Blech!
I really like this idea. And that’s what’s happening right now with my cucumbers as I have not been able to set up a trellis. I was going to lay paper down anyhow so thanks for pointing that out Unfortunately I only have overhead watering.
You might be on to something I mistaking planted 2 of my cucumbers where my butternut squash was suppose to be. I did manage to get one cucumber to the spot I wanted it, where I trellis it. The one on the trellis, died after only giving me a handful of pickling cucumbers, the 2 I planted in my garden I ended up murdering after getting, 15 gallons of dill pickles, 4 quarts of spicy dills, 6 pints of relish and fed a bunch to my chickens gave some to neighbors and ate some myself. I pulled them up when they started choking out my tomato plant. I was so done with cucumbers! What a blessing from a simple mistake!
Finally I know why I have such bad luck growing cucumbers in Texas -- the trellising! Thank you, Jill.
Okay this makes sense! Okies must not have as good of luck either unless it has a major wind break! I think I have enough time to try it this year!
Yes we are finding that growing them as the Lord intended as how we need to do it. We thought trellising was the best thing but we really didn’t get any decent harvest from it. Normally we get about 50 pounds this year we got well over 250 pounds very thankful for it a good and thank you so much for watching
I agree that this is true for Oklahoma also. 105 degrees today and the wind rarely stops blowing.
I grow mine on trellis for a couple reasons, lack of space, growing a long variety that needs to hang and the main variety that I grows multiple fruits per node when trellis. I do use the heavy white plastic netting. I also grow only gynecious or parthenocarpic varieties of cucumbers. I have retractable shade cloths too.
So glad it does well for you lady!
Here in Oklahoma we've had over 25 one hundred degree days as well. I have my cucumbers on a Hortinova (plastic fence) trellis, and my Cantaloupes on an Arched Cattle panel. I've harvested at least 15 cucumbers minimum every single day since June 1, I've already canned 50 quarts of cucumbers and vinegar.
Great harvest Wayne!
I think you are right. I'm a beginner gardener in the DFW area and last year I didn't have much luck trellising my cucumbers. They really struggled. This year I put shade cloth on the west side of the cucumbers and no trellis. They seem really happy with that arrangement!!
We had great success in North Texas doing the same, growing cucumbers on the ground, with weed cloth underneath. We have so many that the chickens and cows got to share! This in a year that the heat has stunted and killeds o much.
Amen my Snyder Fam! Gotta return to traditional farming and gardening
I've trellised my cucumbers for many years, but this year they have burned to a crisp. I am handicapped so will have to do something else next year or find a shader place for them.
This video is what I like about RUclips. It's s nice to know what will or won't work in your area using different methods. We're fine trellising beans, cucumbers and other things here in Kentucky, but we don't usually deal with high winds or extreme heat like y'all in Texas. Good information Jill!
Your cucumber growing method totally makes where you’re at. Mine is trellising up on my chain-link fencing and I have wind barriers and partial shading cloth above. It doesn’t reach 100 here so it’s been doing fine. The bright side on your climate, you get much longer growing season and your crops look wonderful😊 Thank you for your info. I always enjoy seeing your wonderful garden💕
Thank you for sharing your experiences and observations, that's we improve efficiency and increase our (ROR).
We are in full sun here in Bedford and we do get periods of heavy sustained winds on occasions, sometimes so bad that is has blown our back common fence down twice, last time on to the chicken coop.
Planting for fall right now. Only thing that survived the summer heat is Malabar spinach and Asian long beans.
Between the drought, the heat, the wind and the rats they have won the first battle but not the war yet.
Fall garden will round 2 lol, for the year.
We even lost some of our chickens and our Buck rabbit.
Brother Alan want a buck rabbit? We have to start rethinking how we plant and if we can sustain UV rays that are coming from the sun and then winds and the drought. We are kind of going back to the traditional methods I think the Lord knows best and we’re going to follow his lead. Lots of love Jill
@@ntxg we are converting to wicking tubs based largely on your hubbies design and green house tunnels, switching the cover out for 40% shade cloth in mid spring thru late summer. I believe summers will b more severe and the drought to continue. As precious as water is I want it all to go to the plants.
@@ntxg will still use some of the raised beds built previously
I think the same applies to tomatoes and whatever else we might now be 'trellising'. Cherry tomatoes seem to be the easiest to grow and the best producer but big tomatoes have a harder time being trellised, I think. I grew a determinant 'Bush' variety two seasons ago and it did very well. Actually, I grew it (and more) in containers, within a 4x4 raised bed that I hadn't finished yet with a variety of other veggies which made a bit of a 'forest' and all but the 'trellised cucumbers' produced extremely well. Farmers, I noticed, don't trellis anything (they don't really have the time) and they have large harvests. By the way, I'm in Texas too.
are your cucumbers bitter in this heat?
Some were but not all
You are so right! I grew my trellised cucumbers in the greenhouse with misters on the west side. The afternoon sun would burn then up! Got some cucumbers, but nothing like you're getting on the ground. The raised beds dry out on the west side. We have shade cloth over the top - 50% I think. If the leaves were over the soil and/or weed cloth, then it wouldn't dry out as much. Blessings!
Agree, but they take up way too much space, when not trellised. Also, mine suffered rust this year and last year... Helpful video!
Hi Shady man. they do take up space but I’ll tell you that we got about 250 pounds of cucumbers this year we’re average when trellising was about 50 pounds if that. Find you a good spot where you can let them branch out and grow. Thank you so very much for watching us we appreciate you I hope you stick around please set that subscribe button if you didn’t
I wish I didn’t have to trellis mine, but I don’t have the room to let them roam. However I did have my best cucumber harvest yet this year. Shade cloths do help reduce the temperature in a high tunnel. You may already have your reasons for not using one. Just thought I would mention it.
Oh yes! Depends on where you’re at gal
Im in Texas too Im still making cucumbers but they have turned too bitter to eat. A little trick I do is on watermelon I plant one not far from the house and hooked a hose to my AC drain ant let it water for me. just be sure hose doesnt go up hill any. I also put a coffee tub lid under it by the melon and it spills over but the red birds get a drink.
Great idea Dgc! Thank you for the tip be safe and thank you so much for watching we appreciate you
Does the high tunnel hold onto the heat?
It’s hotter in there right now then outside. In the winter when it’s closed up and the suns out during the day it gets quite warm in there. If we don’t supplement the heat at night though it gets close to ambient temperature. If we have lots of plants in there it will be a little bit warmer than outside
I think I’ll try tit this way next year Jill, I have a 40ft in ground bed where I planted pumpkins, watermelon and cantaloupe. The watermelons and cantaloupe did pretty well, but the pumpkins were a big dud. I only got a few pie pumpkins and none of the jack-o-lanterns. All they did was take up space, so next year, I will plant cucumber in that spot and then plant pumpkins in July when cucumber season is over. That will give me another raised bed to plant something else in. Thanks, Jill!
Thanks for the tips. Will try that next year in the greenhouse. Your cukes looked just like ours on a trellis like of sun scorched.
Great thoughts! I trellis my cucumbers and honestly it never occurred to me to not trellis them! I don't have all the garden space you do so I guess that also comes into okay, but definitely something to think about.
Yes certainly a consideration! I know most trellis because of space which was the same with us. I love to pickle so was thrilled with this years harvest
Jill, thanks for all the info. I am in East Texas and the heat really kills us. I have been leaning toward putting up a high tunnel. Do you guys use shade cloth on yours? which one?
We do in small one but took off to get insects under control
Growing them on the ground might allow higher humidity, a lower VPD possibly. I wonder if they'd grow better on trellis if mist was used to maintain more humidity in hot weather. I think the mold might come from dead plant tissue where a healthy plant that hasn't had much die-off/damaged-tissue will resist mold growth. When the VPD gets too high the plant stops growing/breathing & long periods of no-growth opens habitat/environments for pests & pathogens. Just a thought, I'm no expert.
I lost all my cucumbers last year, even after replanting 4x with weed fabric when I tried direct sowing them. I didn't do transplants. This year I did cucumber transplants and trellises and no weed fabric. One group is planted between peppers. The other group is planted beside a row of peanuts. Both are doing well. I've always just direct sowed cucumbers except for once 2 years ago and those did so well we're still eating canned relishes and slices. BUT, I've done what you did with weed fabric with my watermelons, cantaloupes and all my winter squash and pumpkins and spaghetti squash, putting them in as transplants with weed fabric and got/am still getting outrageous harvests 2 years in a row. I may try again with cucumber transplants and weed fabric and see how that goes for fall if I can find a spot. I want to ferment a bunch of crocks of them as my grandkids will eat a half gallon jar every time they visit. I need to clear out space to plant fall stuff, but my garden is full and still heavily producing and the plants that are normally dying by now look great here in NE AL. Time to expand the garden again, I guess. Lol
Don't have that much growing room. Trullis works good for me. Got plenty tomatoes and cucumbers this year. I live in a small duplex in Georgia and my two 10x10 beds produce great when fertilized and mulched. Each year better than before.
Such great news Vincent! Yes it depends on where you are as to whether or not to trellis. We’ve not had success here in Texas due to the extreme heat no shade in the wind that blows almost 365 days a year. I’m so glad to hear that you got a great harvest and hope you continue to get one blessings upon your garden Jill
Have you tried starting cucumbers in august and having them as a fall crop? I’ve wondered if that would be better down here in central texas.
We have not but I know others that have Libby, I think it’s worth a shot just a couple of seeds what are you got to lose
Our cucumbers were trellised and maybe that's why the fruit was bitter when the temps went into triple digits.
Too hot gal! They need their own leaves To shy them and keep the ground moist in damn that’s what we’re learning. How not trail us again because we’ve gotten about 250 pounds of cucumbers versus about 50 pounds in the past. I guess the good Lord knows what he’s doing lol thank you for watching lots of hugs Jill
I noticed the difference in my cucumber this year. I planted it in a container and trellised it. I didn't get nearly the yield as just letting it grow on the ground. I also did trellis my cantaloupe and I have yet to see the fruit of that crop but am hopeful the Lord will make it bountiful.