I’ve never grown vegetables or fruits, but I’m tempted to try cucumbers this year. I don’t know how to keep them or their flowers from getting eaten by squirrels, chipmunks, rabbits. Cage the plants? 🌱
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I’ve not had an issue with this in my garden, which is fenced by netting. Even with the vines on the ground. But trellising the Cukes makes everything easier. Using sunflowers as the trellis worked well too
A pvc frame wrapped with 1/2” or 1/4” hardware cloth sized to fit over your plant/trellis will be very effective, lightweight for handling, and serve multiple purposes, (I like to house seedlings under them when not protecting fruiting plants
I've not grown cukes, but I've grown lots of other squashes and they have sticky prickly fuzzy leaves that most animals avoid, one of the few types of plants in my gardens over the years that didn't even appeal to the deer or ground hogs. Not sure if cucumbers have the same.
It’s been ten years since I had my house and garden, but this I remember:
1. Trickle water them. Bitter cukes haven’t been watered enough
2. A trellis, but on its side kinda, so it’s like a ramp, where the leaves stay on the fence/chicken wire part, and the cukes dangle
3. Get this
4. Good luck!
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Nah I'll put a cage in front of them. Backside will be the fence.
They are relentless. And obviously Mazdas are delicious.
1. Trickle water them. Bitter cukes haven’t been watered enough
2. A trellis, but on its side kinda, so it’s like a ramp, where the leaves stay on the fence/chicken wire part, and the cukes dangle
3. Get this
4. Good luck!