Like usual, I wasn't overly concerned with the directions on the cucumber seed packet, even though I had never grown cucumbers before. Yup. I'm a gardening rebel. I planted probably 10-12 seeds spanning the width of my square foot garden. I knew it was a vine and that the plan was to go upright, and I had some ideas I had seen on Pinterest. I am not into overly labor intensive plans or gardens, and my ideas looked pretty simple. I had seen some vegetable trellises made from pvc, but once my husband saw the pics I showed him, he took some metal pipe and with some pipe bending tool he had, he constructed this in about 10 minutes. I used twine to give my cukes something to grow on and that was it.
Cucumbers have been one of the most enjoyable vegetables I've ever grown, and I can't believe this is my first time. It has been a summer of drinking cucumber/lemon/mint-from-the-garden water (again thank you Pinterest!). We've all been eating cucumbers regularly with my latest favorite being cucumber sandwiches made with cream cheese mixed with powdered ranch dressing mix or with various herbs from my garden. My mom always made canned bread and butter pickles which are amazing, but being time challenged, I want to try one of the delicious refrigerator pickle recipes I've been seeing everywhere.
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